Re: The KDE-4.0.84 Treat for Canada Day Weekend!

On June 30, 2008 18:17:57 Allen Winter wrote:
> > The side panel (with the calendar browser, todo list, etc) in korganizer
> > still doesn't work.
>
> Really?  Strange.
> You are running KOrganizer stand-alone or inside Kontact?
>
> BTW: The to-do list in the side panel is gone.
> But you should still see the calendar navigator and the event viewer
> and the calendar resources list.
>
> Oh, maybe you have the splitter hiding the side panel?
>
Guess what!? I had no idea whatever what a splitter could be, when I noticed 
that there was a little thing with 3 dots at the bottom of the side panel. I 
clicked on it and suddenly the side panel in all of it's glory appeared, 
Calendar, Resources, and all!


No more To Do view, but there is a button to view them on a fresh page. 
Changes make one work differently. I often grow to prefer the new way.


I once thought I couldn't live without Konqueror, and now I like the Dolphin 
and Firefox tandem (yes, I actually did use Konqueror as a browser about 20% 
of the time, but now I no longer use it at all). However, I miss Konqueror's 
ability to deal with man and those horrible info pages, which Dolphin still 
hasn't learned. Yes, I realize that Konqueror still exists, but having one 
program that did it all was just sooooo handy (saved constantly switching 
windows, copying and pasting, etc).


The concept of using one program to view files/pages on the web and on one's 
computer was a good one, as it is realistic, since we rarely have a computer 
without an internet connection and are constantly moving files from the web to 
our computers and sometimes vice-versa. In my opinion, this is a regression, 
as current thinking seems to be heading toward the 'cloud' paradigm, which 
appears to entail eventually having one's files on the web and accessible from 
any computer anywhere (once there is free and encrypted storage available - 
this really should be the ISPs responsibility, since they charge huge monthly 
rates for doing little more than giving us a connection to the internet), 
hence Konqueror's apparently passé way was actually avant garde. And Gnome is 
working on the online desktop, etc, so this seems to be evermore current a 
concept.


I don't really understand how Konqueror fits into the KDE program palette now, 
as it appears to have been superseded by Dolphin in a major part of its 
function (it never could compete to the splendour of Firefox as a primary 
browser). Will there eventually be a new program to deal with KIO Slaves, like 
Konqueror did? Perhaps a stand-alone man:/ and info:/ viewer? Or will Dolphin 
learn these tricks?

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