For all of you users out there who don't like Dolphin at all and find that the current Konqueror is unusable, here's some instructions to install the current KDE4 branch of Krusader (a two-pane, orthodox file manager) from SVN. (Note: you'll need to have the proper development tools from your distribution or OS.)

(These instructions are adapted from the ones here.)

First, download the sources. Personally, I place all of my downloaded or extracted sources into ~/src.

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% mkdir ~/src; cd ~/src

Next, the sources are downloaded from SVN.

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% svn co http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4

Run these commands to compile the sources:

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% cd krusader_kde4
% cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
   -DCMAKE_DQT_INCLUDES=`kde4-config --qt-libraries`
% make #Use 'gmake' on *BSD

Then, su to root, and install.

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# make install #Use 'gmake install' on *BSD

If you do not have root access on the machine you are installing on, you can install it into your home folder instead (I usually go for ~/local). Simply use this instead for the cmake command above:

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% mkdir ~/local; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`~/local`
   -DCMAKE_DQT_INCLUDES=`kde4-config --qt-libraries`

And then be sure to add ~/local/bin to your $PATH.

To uninstall, cd to ~/src/krusader_kde4 and run:

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# make uninstall #Use 'gmake uninstall' on *BSD

Also, those percent signs are the default prompt in Zsh. All you silly Bash users can just ignore them. :P But no matter what shell you are using, if you are copy/pasting these commands, don't copy the %'s or #'s with them. It won't work.

DISCLAIMER: I have not actually tried to install it into my home folder, because I *do* have root access. I believe it should work, but if it doesn't and you have a solution, feel free to correct me.