dolphin file manager | TheaterFire

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Responsible-Love-896@reddit

I’m hoping this is the right community! My question is about Dolphin File Manager, and Dark Mode. I get very frustrated when every other app I use in Linux Mint adopts dark mode, or can be configured to dark mode, yet Dolphin is still light mode, I can’t find a setting/preference to change it. When I have asked for general guidance, it’s suggested I use Qt5ct. However when install Qt5ct it crashes, and doesn’t load. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Tall_Leopard_461@reddit (OP)

its dark mode for me on deck

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MouseJiggler@reddit

There is an official (albeit "unstable" and unsupported) build of Dolphin for Windows, if you need it. Look in https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/dolphin/

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Ezmiller_2@reddit

It's pretty stable, about as stable as Dolphin is on Linux.

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MouseJiggler@reddit

It's "unstable" as per the wording on the kde app site.
Basically, it means "expect bugs, don't expect support".

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Ezmiller_2@reddit

That makes me kinda chuckle a bit as I expect that to be the case with FOSS, Linux, BSD, etc outside of paid apps. Not that people make crappy apps.

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KnowZeroX@reddit

No, it is because most of KDE devs are on linux, at best they may have a windows vm or an old dual boot computer, but it simply isn't where majority of the developers are so you are far more likely to run into bugs and longer time to fix them. Cause being volunteers, people are more likely to fix issues effecting them directly.

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Tall_Leopard_461@reddit (OP)

ill check it out if i ever go back to windows again, ty

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thewrinklyninja@reddit

It's one of the major reasons I prefer plasma over Gnome. Top notch file manager.

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Rosenvial5@reddit

Most of the default apps at that, KDE is pretty much the only DE where the default apps feel like viable alternatives to Windows and not just an afterthought. I even end up using apps like Kate on Windows.

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KnowZeroX@reddit

Yes, most of the default apps in KDE are a cut above the rest, for most other DEs I usually swap out the defaults for something else, but KDE pretty much has me fully covered, other than the calculator. The calculator really needs some work.

Also a big fan of Kate, though I think it isn't default anymore cause they swapped it for a stripped down Kate called KWrite. Also, not too big fan of Kate's icon change (blue orb makes me always confuse it for a browser, so I have to manually change its icon)

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BinkReddit@reddit

the default apps feel like viable alternatives to Windows

I'd take this one step further and say almost all of them are considerable improvements over their default counterparts on Windows.

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MouseJiggler@reddit

There is Dolphin for Windows.

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Dani_E2e@reddit

I use dolphin with gnome. But I also like Nemo.

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TuxedoUser@reddit

And I use Dolphin in XCFE. Yes it pull packages from KDE, but I also use other KDE apps in XFCE and Dolphin is that good that is worth it.

I love the custom context menu options!

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monsieurlazarus@reddit

Both Nemo and Dolphin don't share that horrendous rename pop-up of GNOME Files. What a terrible design choice from GNOME.

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retardedGeek@reddit

How do you use dolphin without pulling down half of the KDE software suite?

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pflegerich@reddit

Thats the trick - they are pulling down half of KDE ;)

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alexatheannoyed@reddit

what’s so great about it? i use it and it just feels like a windows copy with some changes

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jalmito@reddit

Bad troll. Windows can’t do Split View which makes it bottom of the barrel.

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Qweedo420@reddit

What's the point of split view if you can just open two windows?

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monolalia@reddit

Off the top of my head:

No sidebar/toolbar/etc. duplication -- more space for the “content”
Only one window to keep track of
You can copy or move items to the other view with a shortcut or menu item (without manually dragging and dropping them)

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sumsabumba@reddit

And you can have a small terminal in the window.

Seems weird but I absolutely love it.

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MouseJiggler@reddit

There is Krusader, which is an orthodox file manager for KDE, if you're a fan of orthodox file managers.

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spigot66@reddit

I was just using Split View and move to other view today. Brilliant!!

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the_reven@reddit

Kinda feel the same. I haven't found a file explorer that has blown me away, including windows one. Best I can think of is Files, which is an open source C# one for Windows only. Hoping they bring it to Linux one day.

Not saying dolphin is bad, just I havent been blown away by it. It's perfectly fine, just a file explorer. Gnomes one is prettier imo, but way less bells and whistles. Windows one finally added tabs support. But at least windows have the tabs in the top bar and not inside the main content window.

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MouseJiggler@reddit

You can use Dolphin on Windows.

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dudeness_boy@reddit

I love so many kde apps. Kate, dolphin, kde connect. They're just good.

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BinkReddit@reddit

Dolphin is the GOAT!

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Healthy-Form4057@reddit

I can't bring myself to like dolphin because of baloo.

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johncate73@reddit

A big reason I was willing to give Plasma another try a few years back after leaving when KDE4 came out.

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MouseJiggler@reddit

KDE 4 was... Something.

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Ezmiller_2@reddit

Agreed. It was so unstable and then they finally fixed a lot of the bugs in time to announce KDE 5. I gave up and started using different UIs.

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johncate73@reddit

I never revisited it, but I have heard the same thing. KDE 4 finally became something other than a complete PITA right about the time KDE 5 was introduced.

I am still running KDE 5. I'm not interested in beta-testing KDE 6. I will wait a while longer.

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Ezmiller_2@reddit

Yes, KDE 5 is super stable. The devs really did a great job on 5. I haven't had any issues with 6 yet. Well, I have, but it's more of an operator problem.

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SufficientlyAnnoyed@reddit

I remember trying to love it, but man, crash after crash after crash of various components

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Ezmiller_2@reddit

I really enjoy Dolphin, but I don't like the layout view options. I prefer a more traditional Windows/Konqueror style myself.

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zistenz@reddit

If prefer Double Commander QT for my daily and special needs (it has a very versatile script set that I use on my toolbar), but sometimes I also use Dolphin for my simple phone transfers and such. It does what it needs.

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Vodkapencil@reddit

Only if KDE didn't have horrible Visual bugs for my system, I'd use KDE, but yes it indeed is a good file manager.

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_buraq@reddit

Can you describe/show those visual bugs?

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Vodkapencil@reddit

whenever maximizing minimizing any application it just smears all over the screen and I have to either close the application completely or maximize and minimize it like five six times to fix that. A lot of times when I open an application it won't open completely but will open minimize and I have to click it and then it opens. Sometimes opening the application doesn't open at all. Then I click it three, four, five times and then it opens three, four, five instances of the app.

These are just the main ones that I encounter regularly.

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KernelTale@reddit

I don't really like Dolphin. I can't get used to its search engine so I am trying to switch to CLI with ranger and other stuff

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Plasma-fanatic@reddit

Dolphin is about as good as a file manager can be, for my purposes anyway. Some people get overwhelmed by too many options. Me? I get annoyed by too few. No danger of that with dolphin!

The only file manager that's close to being as good is the console/terminal-based mc (midnight commander), a fantastic and extremely versatile tool that puts a "gui" on a huge array of command line chores. It's mouse-aware for those like me that never learned to type.

Krusader is basically a real gui app that does a lot of the same things as mc, but I rarely use it because I'm so familiar with mc, and dolphin is enough for most tasks anyway.

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KamiIsHate0@reddit

If default KDE didn't looked so ugly everybody would use it. Most of the default apps are very good and i use dolphin and kate in every DE/WM.

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Mister_Magister@reddit

its incredible, and with inbuilt terimal? oh boy! and sftp inbuilt? transfering files between computers/phones has never been easier

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lurker-157835@reddit

It's too simple for me. I instead installed Nemo with Gnome, works great. :)

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Keely369@reddit

Give us some examples. I suspect Dolhpin can do what you want with a couple of settings changes.

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andyrudeboy@reddit

I used to be perfectly happy with all the linux file managers but the one that comes standard on mint and debian but remember its name anyone fancy jogging my memory

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Accomplished-Sun9107@reddit

Split View is the best!

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cla_ydoh@reddit

ever since then i loved it for some weird reason

Love knows no bounds...lol

The functionality is not anything weird, though.

I have been using it since it was called D3lphin, and before that Konqueror.

I though Konq was the shit. The Linux Swiss army knife tool. It did everything, and probably could slice my bread, too. Didn't think I could handle a tool that was just a file manager. But here we are. Dolphin is the real shit.

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KilnHeroics@reddit

> and before that Konqueror.

No, it wasn't called Konqueror, Konqueror was the default file manager in KDE 3 (and prob earlier versions) and it was pretty shit, so when Dolphin launched - new app - everyone installed that.

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Plasma 6 was for most a bad snowstorm, not that different from the move to Plasma 5 in 2014.

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kudlitan@reddit

I liked Konqueror better than Dolphin

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DeinOnkelFred@reddit

It's nice at times to drag files around from place to place, and for that I find GNOME Files to be sufficient; for everything else there is dired, which I find close to perfect.

(Actually, "Feature complete" is probably a better than "perfect".)

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Irsu85@reddit

Yea it's quite nice. I prefer the GNOME one, but Dolphin is also a really good one