Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Brendan]

On Monday 03 November 2008, Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> I think my biggest concerns with dolphin have to do with the
> presentation.  The left pane is more or less useless to me, or it would
> be if there was an up button.  To maneuver around correctly, you have to

Agreed. You can add an Up button, which I did.

> go to the root folder every now and then and then navigate back down to
> where you want to go.  I don't find that all that intuitive for new
> users.  Having a left and a right window pane also really cuts down on
> the actual content you are supposed to be looking at.  Dolphin does, in
> my opinion, look nicely professional.

True on both counts. When Dolphin has Icon view on and isn't maximized 
vertically, you can see about 2 files because there is so little space. The 
giant SVG icon on the right of the drive icon is gorgeous though, but kind of 
useless.

> Konqueror seems like a good balance to me for the new user.  It has
> back, forward, up, home, and refresh icons that all browser users are
> familiar with.  It also has the location bar, which users are also
> familiar with, and it doesn't hide where you actually are in the file

Yes, but unfortunately, Konq has a ton of other things that a new user will F 
the S out of his system with. In KDE 3, there was "Simple File Management 
mode" somewhere, and it seemed like a good balance. The profile management 
also needs a lot of usability work.