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The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror (DesktopLinux)The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror (DesktopLinux)Posted Sep 13, 2006 13:26 UTC (Wed) by kobserver (guest, #30087)In reply to: The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror (DesktopLinux) by s_cargo Parent article: The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror (DesktopLinux)
"Might not want to emphasize that too much in the marketing literature. " I disagree. Please do emphasize it even more! Because it *IS* da killa! "MS Explorer has been doing that for years." Uh? What my MS WinXP Explorer does with file management is pretty lame, if I compare it to my KDE. Honest. MS Explorer limits itself to file management on my local disk, and on remote shares that are accessible via SMB (MS networking protocol). Which Konqueror can also do, using the smb:// handle. But... Can I use MS Explorer and access files on a WEBDAV server via webdav:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on a WEBDAVS server via webdavs:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on any SSH server via fish:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on an NFS server via nfs:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on a POP3 server via pop3:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on a POP3S server via pop3s:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on an SFTP server via sftp:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on a CVS server via cvs:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on a Subversion server via svn:// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on an LDAP(S) server via ldap(s):// ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and browse *.bzip, *.bzip2, *.bz2, *.zip, *.tgz and *.tar.gz files and archives by using bzip2:// etc. ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and use man:/, info:/ and help:/ to display help resources nicely formatted (and to print them out)? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and access files on my iPod using ipod:/ ? Nope. Can I use MS Explorer and have file previews and image thumbnails over all remote protocols listed above with MS? Nope. Can I have all features named above in the MS FileOpen and SaveAs dialogs as well? Nope. Can I split my MS Explorer window into different panes, each one connecting to different resources with different protocols, and move/copy files between them with drag'n'drop? Nope. I'm really curious if MS Vista will close these specific gaps and make good some of the competitive edges that KDE has gained in recent years over WinXP....
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The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror (DesktopLinux) Posted Sep 13, 2006 19:44 UTC (Wed) by micampe (guest, #4384) [Link] No, you access them with http:// and https://, the correct protocol.
The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror (DesktopLinux) Posted Sep 14, 2006 8:35 UTC (Thu) by kobserver (guest, #30087) [Link] "(...) you access them with http:// and https://, the correct protocol." But does that allow me to *upload* files to a WEBDAV(S) resource via drag'n'drop file management? With the "webdav://" KIO slave Konqueror can do that for me. Of course, Konqueror can also use http(s):// to access a WEBDAV(S) resource (and this way emulate the MS Explorer lameness), but then it is read-only as well. Try again.
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