https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373824
--- Comment #36 from insaner <kdeb...@insaner.com> ---
It is summer 2019, and I was just forced to do a big upgrade on my machine, and
find myself running into this bug. I'm not sure if there has been any coding
underway to bring back the sidebar, but I would like to drop my 2 cents:
1- Konqueror is THE killer app. There is no other app I rely on more for my
productivity than Konqueror. I use gnome (well, Mate, technically as of last
year or so) and have been using Konqueror as my file browser since the KDE 3.5
days, I believe. Nothing, nothing at all comes close to what Konqueror does. I
personally don't use it as a browser except under really dire circumstances
when all other browsers (chrome, firefox) are completely broken and unusable,
ie, only in emergencies. So the browser functionality was only ever just extra
for me. I can't say it enough, Konqueror always stood as everything I needed in
a file manager and more. It's always the first app I make sure to have
installed if I need to do anything graphical (as opposed to text/cli). So my
hat is firmly tipped to you, David Faure, and anyone else that contributed
code.
2- To answer the question of how we use the sidebar: Besides the already
mentioned "tree view" (which I couldn't figure out how to do the workaround you
suggest), for the reasons already mentioned (ie: incredibly fast and efficient
file navigation), I use the sidebar to do mounts of USB drives or removables
(SATA removable drives). All I have ("had" .. *cry*) to do was to click on the
little entry in the sidebar and konqueror took care of the udisks mount,
everything, including navigating me right to it. That, with the infinite window
splitting, seamless drag-drop into sftp, etc, just made my life so easy.
In summary, Konqueror stands next to software like blender, firefox,
thunderbird and a terminal emulator (I just now discovered konsole, and am
blown away too!) as the standard for how to do the linux desktop. I miss my
sidepane, and am willing to help code, debug, test, whatever is needed. I might
end up trying to figure out how to compile the old konqueror in the meantime,
to bring my productivity back to acceptable levels.
A huge thank you to everyone for giving us Konqueror. I hope I can be of some
help.
(Where /do/ I get the old code from? Is it possible to compile the old
Konqueror and run it side-by-side with the new one somehow?)
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