As already mentioned, dolphin is part of kde4-baseapps in macports. It
does have a rather large set of dependencies -- whether that is "too
much overhead" is matter of opinion. Like you, I haven't found a file
manager I like better, so I use it. I also use a few other KDE apps,
like kompare, gwenview, and okular (separate ports). Macports uses QT4
built against Mac's graphics backend, so X11 isn't needed.
Jonathan
On 2/6/17 05:00 , [email protected] wrote:
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 23:21:43 +0800
From: Dorien Herremans <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Will using only dolphin be too much overhead?
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I am struggling with Finder after switching to Mac from linux. Dolphin was
just a much more powerful file manager.
Features I miss: - easily editable URL to navigate (although fixed that
with Finder Path). - embedded terminal window (very important to me) - tree
view - ability to navigate easily without using the mouse - stay on top
feature by KDE window manager
I've tried Double Commander, but I still don't find it very intuitive, e.g.
see no way to just type/edit the url to where I want to go.
So I did read
<https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-May/020074.html> that
I could run Dolphin via Macports:
dolphin is a rather nice file browser. the impression that i get from here
http://dolphin.kde.org/is that one is to install kdebase4. done. so where
is dolphin?
According to "port contents kdebase4 | grep -i dolphin", there is a
dolphin.app in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4.
My question though: If I have to install kdebase4, doesn't that mean a huge
amount of overhead just for a file manager? Will it actually run X? Does
the installation command above install the whole thing?
-- Dorien Herremans, PhD Marie-Curie Fellow http://dorienherremans.com
Queen Mary University of London School of Electronic Engineering and
Computer Science C4DM - Centre for Digital Music, London
