Hacker News Reader

Comment by moffkalast | Hacker News Reader

It's great to see, though my main gripe with KDE right now is Dolphin, the file manager. It tries to do everything but is just ever so slightly buggy in every way, it can't run as root, and asks to confirm saving twice every single time when editing a networked file. As much as it is less featured and ugly, Nautilus was less annoying to use.

View on HN

Dolphin is legitimately my favorite KDE program. My experience is that it's a phenomenal productivity tool. Being able to quickly open or close a terminal. How customizable the ordering and appearance and columns are. Easy to manipulate tabs.

I think I can count on one hand having a root file manager would be beneficial. Are you logging into a desktop as root?

> Dolphin is legitimately my favorite KDE program.

Happiness is clicking on a folder with lots of files, hitting forward slash, typing a search term, and instantly finding your file.

I thought I didn't even have to hit / ? Perhaps that's in file picker mode.

It is in file picker.

> Are you logging into a desktop as root?

Nah, but I would occasionally like to move things around outside of /home without doing it manually in the terminal. I'm not sure why that's such a problem.

Dolphin can do that! You'll need to install kio-admin and you'll get an option to "open folder as root". After you authenticate, you'll be able to e.g. move files in /etc/

See https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-admin for details.

This will be included in dolphin natively in the near future.

Thank you for the tip, didn't know that!

I promise not to tell you "you're doing it wrong" but I would love to know what your use case is. What files are you moving so often, and why? Thank you.

I've historically had a lot of problems with Dolphin too. It has gotten a lot better though.

Try https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt as an alternative.

It feels native in Plasma/Breeze and is more traditional. I like it.

I wonder, why are more people not using Krusader? I understand it is a nuclear bomb for killing mosquitos, but with a bit of tweaking it can be fast and easy to use; plus, when you really need the big guns, you have them right there.

I've been using KDE since the beginning, and have never heard of Krusader before reading your comment. Maybe I'm not the only one, and that's why?

Looking at it quickly, it doesn't seem to be my cup of tea, but until now I didn't even know it was there to consider.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com