http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/news.html escribió: Dolphin has been moved to kdebase this week. As there already had been some discussions at dot.kde.org about what this really means, I hope the original SVN comment from David Faure makes it more clear:
SVN commit 633622 by dfaure: Moving Dolphin to kdebase, as discussed with Peter and others. The big plan is: dolphin will become the default file manager (kicker buttons and file:/ links bring it up); for a more file-manager-oriented GUI than in kde3. File management in konqueror will remain available, e.g. for people who like to have profiles where it's combined with other things. For code sharing even more, we are considering making a dolphinpart and using that as konqueror's directory view.This means that all people who love Konqueror because of its power and being an universal an viewer: File management in Konqueror will stay and nothing will be taken away. Dolphin for KDE4 has been adapted in a way that Konqueror and Dolphin share as much code as possible. Having now two frontends means that the shared code gets tested in a better way, which will increase the stability and points out possible shortcomings. So just see Dolphin as an additional application for file management, which can be used but nobody is forced doing so.
As some topics regarding Dolphin popup frequently on discussions and are sometimes only based on screenshots and on wrong assumptions, here are some facts:
* Navigation bar: The navigation bar can be switched from the breadcrumb view to the traditional view without any problems. It's configurable which view acts as default and it's possible to switch the views during runtime:
In the KDE4 version of Dolphin it is possible to paste an URL from the clipboard by pressing the middle mousebutton somewhere inside the breadcrumb view.
* .dolphinview files: The KDE3 version of Dolphin stored a hidden .dolphinview file in each directory where the view mode has been changed. Aaron J. Seigo has fixed this, so like in Konqueror the standard .directory file is used instead. Additionally it is configurable whether Dolphin should remember the view properties at all; this means no .directory files if this feature is turned off.
* Is FTP access possible? Dolphin uses the KIO slaves like Konqueror and hence can access all common protocols like ftp:/, home:/, file:/, system:/, media:/, remote:/, applications:/, sftp:/, fish:/ and smb:/.
* Sidebar The sidebars of the KDE4 version Dolphin are now implemented as QDockWidgets, which allow a free configurable alignment (left, right, overlapped or tiled).