Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 20, 2006 11:17 PM
I agree with the blanket statement thing, not even an "IMO" clause, and some would label it a troll.
I also spend a good deal of time in mc, using it for nearly all my sysadmin file management and editing tasks at the command line or in a konsole window it doesn't matter, with a completely customized F2/user-menu. I have EDITOR=mcedit in my profile/bashrc files at both the system and user levels, and have a symlink from e->mcedit as well.
For "user" file management, I still prefer konqueror, however, for much the same reason I prefer KDE -- it may be cluttered if you don't customize it, but KDE including konqueror excels in customizability. In fact, ease of customization and degree of customizability are the biggest reason I've adopted KDE as my desktop of choice, since I've yet to find anything that ships in anything close to my preferred configuration by default, meaning customization is a must and ease of customization is pretty close to top of my usability list.
Of course, by "user" file manager, I'm talking tasks like thumbnail and full embedded file viewing, and strength of first and N-degree mime-type associations, that many would consider "soft" file manager functionality, and use dedicated browsers, graphics viewers, etc, for. Konqueror excels at this sort of thing, which is why I use it for it, but doesn't work so well for the "hard" file management tasks, where it can be very slow as it stops to make all those associations and decide on the appropriate icon or thumbnail representation to use, which is why I use a tool more suited to the task, mc, for my sysadmin file management time tasks.
Your conclusion, however, is right on. The good thing about freedom is just that, the freedom to choose, and in the end, it doesn't matter whether you and I prefer different file managers, or even if each of us uses multiple file managers, depending on the task at hand. What matters is that we have the choice, and that in the land of free software, there remains the opportunity to (0) make use of the software we find useful, (1) learn how the program works and adapt it to our needs (both at the source level and thru configurability), (2) share the programs we have found useful with others, without having to worry about the legality or lack thereof of doing so, and (3) make improvements to the programs as we think of them, again making these improvements (again in configuration OR source) available to others, without fear of infringing on the rights of the original creator or further contributors or distributors between him and us. These are the four freedoms of free software. Would that they applied to all software, and indeed, all creative works. Maybe some day...
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Re:Konqueror - All Other Pale In Comparison
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 20, 2006 11:17 PMI also spend a good deal of time in mc, using it for nearly all my sysadmin file management and editing tasks at the command line or in a konsole window it doesn't matter, with a completely customized F2/user-menu. I have EDITOR=mcedit in my profile/bashrc files at both the system and user levels, and have a symlink from e->mcedit as well.
For "user" file management, I still prefer konqueror, however, for much the same reason I prefer KDE -- it may be cluttered if you don't customize it, but KDE including konqueror excels in customizability. In fact, ease of customization and degree of customizability are the biggest reason I've adopted KDE as my desktop of choice, since I've yet to find anything that ships in anything close to my preferred configuration by default, meaning customization is a must and ease of customization is pretty close to top of my usability list.
Of course, by "user" file manager, I'm talking tasks like thumbnail and full embedded file viewing, and strength of first and N-degree mime-type associations, that many would consider "soft" file manager functionality, and use dedicated browsers, graphics viewers, etc, for. Konqueror excels at this sort of thing, which is why I use it for it, but doesn't work so well for the "hard" file management tasks, where it can be very slow as it stops to make all those associations and decide on the appropriate icon or thumbnail representation to use, which is why I use a tool more suited to the task, mc, for my sysadmin file management time tasks.
Your conclusion, however, is right on. The good thing about freedom is just that, the freedom to choose, and in the end, it doesn't matter whether you and I prefer different file managers, or even if each of us uses multiple file managers, depending on the task at hand. What matters is that we have the choice, and that in the land of free software, there remains the opportunity to (0) make use of the software we find useful, (1) learn how the program works and adapt it to our needs (both at the source level and thru configurability), (2) share the programs we have found useful with others, without having to worry about the legality or lack thereof of doing so, and (3) make improvements to the programs as we think of them, again making these improvements (again in configuration OR source) available to others, without fear of infringing on the rights of the original creator or further contributors or distributors between him and us. These are the four freedoms of free software. Would that they applied to all software, and indeed, all creative works. Maybe some day...
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