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In KDE 4.6 Konquerer was stripped of it's abilities to edit text-based documents, under the pretense that Konquerer is not an editor, but a viewer; and that other components of Konquerer (such as the image viewer) do not edit, creating a consistency of non-editing.

This suggestion is to implement an option to re-enable editing features as an option for power-users of Konquerer. The option could be as follows:


(Simple, broad-sweep editing)
General Settings -> Enable Editing [x]

or;

(Individual settings so users know what they are enabling)
General Settings -> Enable Text Editing [x]
General Settings -> Enable Image Editing [x]
General Settings -> Enable X... Y... Z...


Because it would be an option, as time goes Konquerer could receive more editing components later on as devs get around to it (images, for example), and not receive clutter complaints from basic users, while Konquerer power-users could use Konquerer as the small development-suit they are used to.


On a personal note;
Konquerer has long been my favorite editing within KDE 4, and I feel it's a superior web-development tool, with it's ability to use KIO slaves to manage FTP files seamlessly, granting the ability to make extremely agile edits. I don't believe that outright removing the feature ("bug") was the correct decision, and that it would be smarter to simply disable it by default, and enable it as an optional setting.

In the interim, any file you can open (with the intent to edit) you can open in any other KDE app, thanks to KIO, and still get the seamless behavior. So for text files just open in kwrite/kate, pics in gwenview, etc. Edit and save and KIO will take care of the rest.
Of course this adds the hassle of many applications rather than just doing everything in Konqueror.

I would also like to see this implemented. For me, editing files in a Konqueror tab (alongside the file manager tabs and web browsing tabs) is the killer feature of KDE. Combine this with the awesome Konsole, and that's pretty much my default desktop experience.