KDE file manager problem

[wizard10000]

...At least there are still options. I took up krusader, which I have used sporadically before, but never went through with setting it up just right...until now. (And so far I'm generally liking it better than dolphin...especially when working with the keyboard...in mc style).

This "feature" hasn't made it to Sid yet. When it does I'll probably switch to geany and krusader (or pcmanfm, which I already have installed). sudoedit isn't an acceptable workaround for me as I really like $EDITOR pointing to a console text editor.

[Rod J]

At least there are still options. I took up krusader, which I have used sporadically before, but never went through with setting it up just right...until now. (And so far I'm generally liking it better than dolphin...especially when working with the keyboard...in mc style).

+1 for Krusader. I use nothing else but Krusader and have made it the default file manager in K14.04. I've been a fan of orthodox file managers since my earliest days with computers. I rarely use Dolphin. If Krusader wasn't available I would probably use Double Commander which I have installed here too. DC was my favourite file manager when I was using Ubuntu (mind you, almost anything was better than Nautilus back then ).

[GreyGeek]

Wow, Kubical! I wish I had looked at Krusader a lot sooner. It is mc on steroids! Love it!

[acheron]

Krusader 2.5.0 backported from zesty is now in

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports-landing

for testing on Xenial and Yakkety.

If you wish to test, please add that ppa, upgrade krusader, THEN REMOVE/DISABLE the ppa once upgraded

(may have to go through the 1st run setup on this upgrade)

Thanks.

[vinnywright]

ya we have the Krusader-2.5.0 on Neon as well ,,,,,,



and it will launch in root mode just fine ,,,,,,,,,,the niggle is blocking Dolphin from doing things as root ,,,,,,yes I know the issue is been addressed (slowly) , I just do not think it was nice to brake it before having a fix ready to immediately put in place so that their would be a more seamless transition to the new way.

VINNY

EDIT: OOPS thats right ,,,I forgot I compiled it to have the new one ,,,,,,the ver I get in a apt search is

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt search krusader
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
krusader/xenial 1:2.4.0~beta3-2ubuntu1 amd64
 twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

[wizard10000]

...I just do not think it was nice to brake it before havie ng a fix ready to immediately put in place so that their would be a more seamless transition to the new way.

Agreed, but KDE is a big project and managing it is probably like herding cats

The problem here is release management; apparently some stakeholders didn't provide input for whatever reason.

[vinnywright]

Agreed, but KDE is a big project and managing it is probably like herding cats

The problem here is release management; apparently some stakeholders didn't provide input for whatever reason.

I will concede that KDE IS a big project , and volunteer work at that ,,,,,,,, and I should not gripe ,,,at all ,,, I have been enjoying my KDE desktops since the 3.5 day's ,,,,for free , and loving it so shut-up Vinny

I just went into a short lived panic the other day when I needed to make some system links in some root DIR's .
Usualy I would just do a "kdesudo dolphin" and drag and drop selecting the "link hear" option and their we go.

when I saw for the first time the

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ kdesudo dolphin 
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/vinny/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address. 
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon 
Executing Dolphin as root is not possible.

I went ballistic ,,,,and keep in mind if you do that in krunner or use it in a custom menu entry you get NO notification at all ,,,,you just sit their wandering ,,why did it not launch ??

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Been there, done that.
Dolphin is, IMO, fantastic. In form, look and function it is unbeatable. I can turn the split screen on and off, and the services and right mouse offerings were awesome.

Krusader is not as eye pleasing and I haven't found a way to turn off the split screen, but it's got everything else, including the kitchen sink, in it!


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[oshunluvr]

Been there, done that.
Dolphin is, IMO, fantastic. In form, look and function it is unbeatable. I can turn the split screen on and off, and the services and right mouse offerings were awesome.

Totally agree. I was a huge Xtree user about a million years ago. Love the ease of split screens. Now with Dolphin, I can also have tabs, write my own service menus, etc. I'm so used to the clean appearance that screen shot of Krusader looks messy to me.

[wizard10000]

...Krusader is not as eye pleasing and I haven't found a way to turn off the split screen, but it's got everything else, including the kitchen sink, in it!

Here - have 138 pages of krusader manual. I found it pretty interesting

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extra...r/krusader.pdf

[GreyGeek]

Here - have 138 pages of krusader manual. I found it pretty interesting

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extra...r/krusader.pdf

What? Am I supposed to read a manual? Who ever does that?
(Besides, when did Linux apps ever have up todate manuals?)

[wizard10000]

What? Am I supposed to read a manual? Who ever does that?
(Besides, when did Linux apps ever have up todate manuals?)

I skimmed through the thing looking for a way to turn krusader single-pane for you and apparently there ain't one, but it was an interesting read. *Way* more functionality than I thought

[GreyGeek]

I skimmed through the thing looking for a way to turn krusader single-pane for you and apparently there ain't one, but it was an interesting read. *Way* more functionality than I thought

That's EXACTLY what I did and why. Didn't find anything either. But, it's still a good replacement for Dolphin when accessing root. I see it as a graphical mc.

[oshunluvr]

I used to (09-10.xx kubuntu days) give the root user a password, log into the GUI as root, load a different set of icons than my user, then log out and delete the root password.

Then whenever I launched Dolphin with kdesudo, it looked different...

[kubicle]

I used to (09-10.xx kubuntu days) give the root user a password, log into the GUI as root, load a different set of icons than my user, then log out and delete the root password.

You don't (didn't) really need to run a full desktop as root, you only need to run system settings (might have been kcontrol back then) as root with kdesudo to set the icon theme for root. I regularly set a different color scheme for root apps the same way, probably for the same reason you did...nice to have a visual reminder.