Will using only dolphin be too much overhead?

[Jonathan Stickel]

Also see:  https://trac.macports.org/wiki/KDE


On 2/6/17 08:04 , Dorien Herremans wrote:
> Thanks Jonathan,
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> That is very helpful, I am not very familiar with airports yet.
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> I may consider installing it.
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> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 at 22:52, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at gmail.com
> <mailto:jjstickel at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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>     <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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>     > 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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>     > 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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