Konqueror filemanagement not working after upgrade

[hallergard]

I prefer using Konqueror as Root File Manager (kfmclient openProfile filemanagement) - run as different user (root) - but this does not work after upgrade to 17.04. Yes, I have installed dolphin4. Help, please!

[acheron]

When porting konqueror to KF5/Qt5 KDE removed things like the profiles (filemanagement webbrowsing etc), the file manager sidebar, etc. Presumably focusing on it as a web browser rather than file manager.

A retrograde step IMO, as it now not a not very good webbrowser with very limited/crippled file management abilities. They would have been better off binning it rather than this.

[Rog131]

Keep it or kill it ?

When porting konqueror to KF5/Qt5 KDE removed things like the profiles (filemanagement webbrowsing etc), the file manager sidebar, etc. Presumably focusing on it as a web browser rather than file manager.

A retrograde step IMO, as it now not a not very good webbrowser with very limited/crippled file management abilities. They would have been better off binning it rather than this.

1 % problem

Bug 373824 - Konqueror 16.12 is missing the sidebar: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373824#c3

David Faure wrote:

"the developers" (plural) is wishful thinking. Konqueror has 0.01 developer right now (me, with a very low priority for konqueror).

More of the keep or kill (unmaintained): Dropping kdelibs4-based applications in KDE Applications 17.12 - https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&...1780501598&w=2

[Rog131]

I prefer using Konqueror as Root File Manager (kfmclient openProfile filemanagement) - run as different user (root) - but this does not work after upgrade to 17.04. Yes, I have installed dolphin4. Help, please!

$ konqueror --help

Options:
...
 --profile <profile>        Profile to open (DEPRECATED, IGNORED)
...

[Star Gazer]

Well, I think it is a shame if they drop Konqueror, since I can use the "man:/" and "info:/" in the address bar (e.g. man:/find) and load up the help file right onto the page of it. I just had a thought to try that in Dolphin, and see, there is a result, but it loads it up into the Firefox Web Browser. Another great feature of Konqueror is the ability to search text in LibreOffice files (at least the .odt ones).