Plasma Active Three released [LWN.net]

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 14:01 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by ovitters
Parent article: Plasma Active Three released

>Various other tablets don't expose the filesystem.

And the result of this is that the Play store contains a wide variety of extremely popular applications that provide a real file manager, because in practice not having one is completely hobbling.

Possibly - even probably - this is in large part because existing implementations of the idea suck, but that certainly gives rise to a reasonable doubt that some new implementation is going to solve all of the problems.

Does anyone know if there's a desktop build of the Files application that we can try? I found this: http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Installation#Insta..., but there's a plethora of confusing options and it's not clear what images (if any) have been updated for PA3.

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Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 17, 2012 11:35 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> And the result of this is that the Play store contains a wide variety of extremely popular applications that provide a real file manager, because in practice not having one is completely hobbling.

And still, I only use file managers (on Android) when I have to transfer files between apps that are (buggily IMHO) not prepared to transfer them back and forth (in the last months, the audiobook player and dropbox)...