Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[p.daniels]

On Monday November 3 2008 09:39:23 pm Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Actually, after looking at the home page for Krusader I am actually
> shocked Dolphin was ever made.  Supposedly the whole reason for Dolphin's
> being was to be a separate file manager independent of other components.  I
> can respect that, really, I can.
>
>     From Krusader's home page.  It's been around for 7 years now.  IE, it
> is a dedicated file manager that has had years to mature.
>
>     "We need a discrete file manager to take over for the code we no longer
> want to maintain in Konqueror.  Do we incorporate this stable, mature,
> powerful piece of software or start from scratch!?"
>
>     "START FROM SCRATCH!!!"  "YEA!!!!"
>
>     My brain hurts now.

Well, in defense of the decision (not the application itself, but the 
rationale of writing a new stand-alone file manager), Krusader is not for 
wussies. It's not what folks are accustomed to. You have to learn stuff. You 
might even have to Read The Friendly Manual. I'm being tongue-in-cheek here, 
but it's true. If I'm a n00b and I can't even figure out the file manager, it's 
probably going to be a deal-breaker. So no, as much as I love Krusader I've 
also got to admit that it's targeted to a very specific group of people, which 
does not include the majority of the public (or even the Linux using public).

Another large reason for the creation of Dolphin was the "visual overload" 
complaint about Konqueror, especially its settings dialog, and Krusader's a 
beast, it's the Swiss Army File Manager. (Now, I don't believe that an 
application as central to your computer use as your file manager can ever be 
"too configurable," but that's a whole other flamewar.)

-pete