A compromise solution.

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/4 Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net>:
> Just in case someone here ran into the same sort of problems as I
> did, I'll share a few ideas:
>
> I tried several times to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10: no go.
> Everything locked up. Then, fresh install: still no go, only the
> upper half of my screen was visible. After some fiddling with
> X.org.conf I got a full screen and began to use KDE4. Then I
> discovered - like many others here - that I had lost a lot of
> functionality, especially Konqueror, but lots of other things too,
> like all the options to customize my desktop easily.
>
> OK, i gave up. Here's what I did in order to get happy again:
>
> Fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. Well, no decent file manager here
> either, only the crappy nautilus. But the install went without a
> hiccup. Then, installed kubuntu-desktop, kmail etc.. Fine, but still
> no usable file manager. Installed krusader, which is a bit 'over the
> top' for me. So I found a fine compromise between unusable Dolphin
> and the geeky Krusader: 'emelfm2' (sudo apt-get install emelfm2).
>
> So, now I have the best of two worlds: KDE + Gnome + a very fine and
> potent file manager with a intuitive, graphic interface. Now I can
> keep on upgrading both flavours automagically until KDE4 reaches
> maturity. Happy days are here again...
>
> Kaj Haulrich.

Kaj, Konqueror is still available in KDE 4.1. It does use Dolphin for
the backend, but the UI is Konqueror as we know and love it.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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