On 19/04/2017 16:57, Mick wrote: > OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me. > My > konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and <aheam!> > features I am not happy with. Grateful for any pointers to address these. > In > no particular order. > > 1. The Bookmarks Toolbar will *always* show up when launching Konqueror. I > deselect Settings/Toolbars Shown/Bookmark Toolbar and relaunch the > application, only to find out my deselection will not stick. > > 2. The menu shows no icons, only text; buttons like open new tab/close > current > tab show no icons, making difficult to guess. > > 3. When used as a file manager Konqueror will only open directories or files > if I double click on them. I have set up in systemsettings5 Hardware/Input > Devices/Mouse/Single click to open files and folders. Konqueror ignores it. > > 4. All my years of Bookmarks of Konqueror:4 gone. I had to import them > manually. > > 5. Network places, gone. > > 6. Left hand Panels with Places/Devices/Folders ain't thaa'r. > > 7. Konqueror Introduction page, no icons; unless I hover over them, > hyperlinked titles shown in dark grey over a blue background. I know my eye > sight is not as good as it used to be, but this is really akin to usability > sabotage. > > The are probably more problems I have not captured above, but my experience > of > konqueror:5 is that of crippleware. I don't know if this has anything to do > with it, I am not running konqueror on a full plasma desktop, but as a stand > alone application. Have you observed similar? >
Halfway through the KDE-4 lifecycle it became known that konqueror then was essentially without a maintainer in the KDE project. Gut feels tells me that has likely not changed and the minimum work was done to get it to build under KDE-5. Just gut feel. I gave up on konqueror as a browser during KDE-3 and switched to Dolphin as file manager in KDE-4. Have you considered that? Your points 2, 3, 5 & 6 all work in Dolphin familiarly to old Konqueror. I found many things Dolphin couldn't do that don't matter, like snazzy file views of directories that visually show how big sub-dirs and files are. I can live without that. The only irritation that mattered was not being able to repeatedly split panes in half vertically or horizontally; Dolphin gives you just two panes, side by side. So I started opening more tabs to get more panes :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
