Spanspek

With my upgrade to Opensuse 11 and KDE4, basic filesystem operations using a GUI has become a pain in the arse. Unless you want to get down and dirty on the command line, you either use Dolphin or Konqueror. I'm sure there are others, but these are the defaults and they're what most newcomers would use. I just want to be able to move and copy files. When I click on a directory's name, the directory is opened and presented to me. That's not so unexpected. But when I click on a file's name, it launches whatever app handles that file by default or user setting. For any regular users of Windows or OSX, that's very unexpected. As yet, I cannot find an easy way of selecting a single file. If I click and then drag on a file's name, I select multiple items. I actually have to right-click and bring up a contextual menu then escape to select the file. Then I can try to drag it. Then comes the next problem. If I want to drag it to a folder in the same directory, I may have to drag beyond the bounds of directory view to get the view to scroll to where the folder's name is. However, in Konqueror this doesn't work. If I drag too far, I get the circle/slash icon. If I drag just over the border, the view scrolls about 1 pixel every five seconds. I tried copying and pasting, or cutting and pasting. This doesn't work either. If I cut or copy the file and then navigate to the directory where I want it, the Paste command is greyed out, even if I have ownership of the file and the destination directory. WTF? Some of this used to be possible in KDE3. Konqueror and Dolphin are seriously broken. Listen, Linux and KDE developers: if you want people to adopt Linux, you'd better make it sufficiently similar to Windows and OSX and make basic operations easy, or you're dead in the water.