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Quoted from "misfire99" KDE is doing the same stupid mistake MS made with InternetExplorer. They make IE the center of everything that the windowing system does. Dolphin is the IE of KDE. And of course Dolphin bites the big one. Instead of using the Unix design paradigm of small usable programs that can be linked together to form useful programs. Kde has decided to be a sheep and follow the bleetings of MicroSoft. Monolithic is the order of the day. What a colossal mistake. The design should be...

Here's my 2 cents.... I am not disappointed because I expected KDE4 to have a learning curve, and to break new ground and have some new features that are a little rough around the edges. That being said there are a lot of things seem to have taken a step back. Like the obvious things including the Plasma based desktop and task manager. A major problem for me is the devolution of the "File Dialogs" and the fish protocol seem to have been neutered (I posted about this in the KDE Network forum). Ka...

Probably the most important feature in KDE to me has always been the KIO Slaves, specifically fish. Has the functionality of fish been reduced in KDE4? Specifically the file dialogs used to allow you to type in a full path in the form: fish://servname/home/www/mysite/html The file open/save dialog, showed the remote path, and even allowed for type ahead completion. Now all I see is fish://servername I have to drill down through the icon display each time to get to my files. I have also noticed t...