Have things become that bad that KDE fanboys just dont like the idea of sharing ideas from each DE? What they haven’t done is cull features out of it though, and from a file management point of view, Dolphin even adds a few in that Konqueror didn’t have.

It’s the file management subset of Konqueror organised in a different and somewhat more straightforward way. As KDE moves through the 4.0 cycle, that process of debate, discussion and improvement should get better, rather than an abitrary decision of “We’re not putting any more options into the print dialogue, no matter how organised they are, because they confuse ordinary users”.Īll I can say it your in denial about Dolphin, it’s layout is almost identical to nautilus, thats not a bad thing so why can you not just accept it?ĭolphin has way more features and file management power than Nautilus. What has changed, and will continue to change, is the manner in which features are presented, where they are presented and the user interfaces involved as KDE’s guidelines and HIG develop. That word clean that people like to use so much means nothing. I doubt that you will be able to find a single feature that has been pulled out of KDE in KDE 4 in order to make things simpler and cleaner. It isn’t, and the issue of what features to present to a user and where is a different process in KDE. It’s a good thing so lets not claim KDE is superior when KDE4 is actually more simplified and cleaner, ironically just like GNOME is.Īgain, people are trying to claim that KDE is copying Gnome here. Some people are trying to make out that Dolphin is a knock-off of Nautilus. It’s also still building on the same framework, like IOSlaves, that Konqueror used, and uses. The difference between Dolphin and Konqueror is that Dolphin is purely focused on file management, with all the powerful file management features that Konqueror ever had. I don’t know about that, but if Gnome had collaborated more with things like QtGTK, which allowed GTK applications to use KDE/Qt themes, so that GTK could use Qt/KDE themes, then things might have been an awful lot better than they are.ĭont make out KDE has all the ideas, people moaned about how simple nautilus was, now Dolphin looks almost identical to nautilus. If Clearlooks was a copy of Plastik then for good reason because then both DE apps would look similar. Everyone has borrowed something from each other, but they’re still standard themes that don’t do very much, nor are the original.Ĭlearlooks was never ported to KDE though, so I’m not sure why you’re still trying to claim that.

They’re just approximations of trying to get something that works within current limitations. Neither Plastik nor Clearlooks are ground-breaking in any way.

What OS/DE has a look like Clearlooks, it was even very popular when ported to KDE.

The new clearlooks looks much better than it was, 2.20 will have the new version.

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