The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica)

Yeah, but I guess he referred to the _old_ Konqueror being a superior file manager.  It's like
I see it as well at least. I don't like single-click GUI so I have it turned off. So what I
have got left is a file manager which is actually less capable than before and with Konqueror
using the new "dolphin" part for it's file management means I can't go back to the old version
either.

But it's okay, I'm sure it will still be improved and we'll get back to the previous level of
functionality (and more).

In the latest KDE versions from trunk the multi-threading of dolphin has already been greatly
improved. Hopefully the slow thumbnail loading will be next (maybe they should take a look at
Google's Picasa or Canon's photo management software which are able to load thumbnails at
incredible speeds).