Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 09:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
In the transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4, a new file manager, Dolphin, was often discussed and now officially moved to the base part of KDE. "I just stumbled over this message saying that the file manager Dolphin is now part of kdebase (of KDE 4): 'Moving Dolphin to kdebase, as discussed with Peter and others. The big plan is: Dolphin will become the default file manager (kicker buttons and file:/ links bring it up).' The question remains what now happens with Konqueror - keep in mind that one of the goals of KDE 4 was to only keep one app for each task inside the base packages. But with Dolphin as the potentially new file manager and Webkit as the new browser we may see Konqueror vanish."
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Indeed, the introduction of a standalone filemanager, whilst leaving Konq as the web browser still fits within the goal of one app per task, because previously konq was doing more than one!
I think Konquerer suffered a bit, usability-wise because it was two large apps in one - just looked a mess at times. Still, I used it a lot because it was powerful and I loved all the protocols it supported.
So, as long as all the good file manager functionality makes it to Dolphin, then I think this will be step forward for KDE in this area.