On Wednesday 15 August 2018 13:17:00 Felix Miata wrote: > William Morder composed on 2018-08-15 11:27 (UTC-0700): > > On 15 August 2018 14:14 (UTC-0400) Pisini, John wrote: > >> ...My only real issue is Konq is it always gets confused in tree view > >> and>> mixes my external disks into the tree which is goofy as heck and > >> makes moving tons of files beyond clunky. > > ... > > > ...maybe it will spur them to create something new to replace Konqueror. > > Have either of you considered something old to replace your use of Konq as > file manager? KDE3[1] has been my primary Linux desktop since day one of > using a Linux GUI, and I've /never/ used Konq as a file manager (not > counting when it opens on USB stick or OM insertion, where I allow it to > open as a mount/umount facility). > > OFMs[2] predate Konq by well over a decade. Without any OFM in Linux I > probably would still have been using OS/2 until 2-3 years ago (when > mozilla.org products for OS/2 got too far behind to catch up and had to be > forked). > > I (constantly) use two OFMs, MC, which all distros provide, many by > default, and FC/L[3]. MC runs on the vttys same as it does in Konsole, so > same if you find yourself in a rescue boot as normally). > > [1] TDE has been on several PCs here for several years, and most likely > will replace KDE4 as primary within the next 5-6 months. > > [2] http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_file_manager > > [3] http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html I haven't used MC very much, but I might consider exploring more. Other file managers I've tried are Dolphin (which I dislike, but it has its uses), Nautilus and PCManFM, which are both pretty good, but not as functional as Konqueror. I don't like the fact that Konqueror is *also* a web browser; I would prefer that it is one or the other. But in any case, I disable it as a web browser. Actually, I myself am satisfied with Konqueror as a file manager, as I only use it in list view, with details, and don't bother with tree views, thumbnails, etc. However, I try to look at things sometimes from other people's viewpoints, and I can see how they might wish for some other features. And what I like about TDE is that it is flexible and adaptable enough that we can each configure it to serve our individual purposes. OS/2, now there's a blast from the past! I never used it myself, but I have some friends who still pine away for OS/2. Bill