Mike McCarty wrote:
Toshiro wrote:FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove away due to this inefficient filepicker.I thought I was the only one but I see I'm not alone :) I've also moved away to konqueror for the same reason, that filepicker sucks!!; it's incredible that I couldn't select my own home directory to save downloaded files!!I'm confused. What has a web browser got to do with a file picker?
By filepicker, I meant the dialog that pops up when you want to choose an application or when you want to save a file to the hard drive.
Reading pdf/ps files (for example journal papers) from web is a common task for me. I search for them in google, if I find a pdf file, I sometimes want to open it in xpdf/acroread/evince/kpdf etc., depending on the situation. (Why I dont use a single pdf reader all the time? That is a different story and I wont go into that.)
Now for some reason, firefox remembers only one application per file extension. For example, let's say, it knows to open pdf files in xpdf. Now if I want to change it to acroread, I have to go through the filepicker dialog, which involves going through /usr/bin directory. The moment you enter /usr/bin, it tries to load all the files in the /usr/bin directory and the machine is not responsive for quite a bit of time (say 30 seconds). This kind of thing does not happen in konqueror where it can remember multiple applications for the same file extension. I think it pretty impressive that the konqueror guys got it right.
Are you using it to browse your own machine? If so, then that's bizarre.
The above situation does not involve using the browser as the file manager. I just hope I was succinct enough to drive the point.
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