Will using only dolphin be too much overhead?

[Dorien Herremans]

Thanks Jonathan,

That is very helpful, I am not very familiar with airports yet.

I may consider installing it.


On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 at 22:52, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at gmail.com> wrote:

> As already mentioned, dolphin is part of kde4-baseapps in macports. It
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> does have a rather large set of dependencies -- whether that is "too
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> much overhead" is matter of opinion. Like you, I haven't found a file
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> manager I like better, so I use it. I also use a few other KDE apps,
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> like kompare, gwenview, and okular (separate ports). Macports uses QT4
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> built against Mac's graphics backend, so X11 isn't needed.
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> Jonathan
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> On 2/6/17 05:00 , macports-users-request at lists.macports.org wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 23:21:43 +0800
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> > From: Dorien Herremans <dorien.herremans at gmail.com>
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> > To: macports-users at lists.macports.org
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> > Subject: Will using only dolphin be too much overhead?
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> > down votefavorite
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41994127/will-running-dolphin-file-manager-on-osx-cause-a-lot-of-overhead#
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> > I am struggling with Finder after switching to Mac from linux. Dolphin
> was
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> > just a much more powerful file manager.
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> >
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> > Features I miss: - easily editable URL to navigate (although fixed that
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> > with Finder Path). - embedded terminal window (very important to me) -
> tree
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> > view - ability to navigate easily without using the mouse - stay on top
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> > feature by KDE window manager
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> > I've tried Double Commander, but I still don't find it very intuitive,
> e.g.
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> > see no way to just type/edit the url to where I want to go.
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> >
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> > So I did read
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> > <
> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-May/020074.html>
> that
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> > I could run Dolphin via Macports:
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> > dolphin is a rather nice file browser. the impression that i get from
> here
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> > http://dolphin.kde.org/is that one is to install kdebase4. done. so
> where
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> > is dolphin?
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> > According to "port contents kdebase4 | grep -i dolphin", there is a
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> > dolphin.app in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4.
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> > My question though: If I have to install kdebase4, doesn't that mean a
> huge
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> > amount of overhead just for a file manager? Will it actually run X? Does
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> > the installation command above install the whole thing?
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> >
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> > -- Dorien Herremans, PhD Marie-Curie Fellow http://dorienherremans.com
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> > Queen Mary University of London School of Electronic Engineering and
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> > Computer Science C4DM - Centre for Digital Music, London
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> --
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