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Like what's in Konqueror. I like to use it to create simple web pages.

I don't think this sort of specialized format-specific task should be done by dolphin. I think gwenview is much better suited to this sort of task (for images, at least), and it is already able to do this.

Dolphin should be elementary.
For any special stuff use Konqueror.

The User wrote:Dolphin should be elementary.
For any special stuff use Konqueror.

Why have two file managers? One of the complaints of Dolphin is that it won't do everything Konq does, and this is just one of those little things.

Digikam has an export plugin (from kipi) that can create small html photo galleries.

In the past, konqueror tried to be a jack-of-all-trades. By letting file managing be developed within dolphin and graphic applications such as the image gallery be handled by digikam and gwenview, it enables developers to concentrate on a more restricted set of problems, with better chance of success. A recent example of this is the development of filelite, which gives a graphical view of your drive usage - another job that we used to expect konqueror to do. The end result should be a set of applications that offer all the konqueror did, with even more possibilities

The result of course is that instead of having a single jack-of-all-trades application (konq), we have many specialized applications which perform their own task well and can be combined in different ways to get things done.

If anything bloat should be taken out of Dolphin to make it more light-weight which is what you want from a file manager: Find my files, move things around, copy, upload, etc. manage files. You want to create an image gallery web page? Open your image manager, hit the 'create image gallery' button, and follow the directions to tweak things as you will.

Well, there are parts for Dolphin, filelite, gwenview, Okular... So Konqueror can concentrate on putting all together.
Konqueror ist not a second file-manager, it's a "meta-program" with file-management-features provided by Dolphin. (I use Konqueror as file-manager, I think that seperate applications are good as long as they are not developed independently from Konqueror (like Rekonq, gra))

Dolphin now has tab browsing, and uses kioslaves so I didn't think the "image gallery" tool was too much to ask for. Also I mistakenly assumed that Dolphin was going to REPLACE Konqueror as the file manager so that Konq could become a better web browser. If that is not the case then I'll go back to Konqueror as I tend to work from the file manager and like having access to a lot of functionality from one app. This also brings up the issue as to when can we expect Konq to have some of the features of Dolphin?

Dolphin has kio slaves, but it does not have kparts (which are for handling particular types of files like pictures or text documents). And tabs were added only after a lot of resistance from the dolphin developers, because they were considered at first to be too advanced for dolphin.

The idea of Dolphin was to have a specialized file browser that only does file browsing. Konqueror was meant to remain as a multi-purpose application that can do just about anything. Konqueror becoming just a web browser was not part of the plan.

As for when dolphin features being moved to konqueror, that would depend on the feature in question. I think there are plans to port the panels of dolphin to konqueror, although I don't know the time frame, but other than that konqueror can do everything dolphin can. In fact konqueror uses dolphin as its file browsing kpart.

Doesn't dolphin support plugins of some sort? I think that the basic feature set is really nice altough adding features like this one with a plugin can be useful. Script plugins can be especially cool for those of us that can do some programming and need some sort of custom feature.

Dolphin supports what are called service menus, which are basically right-click menus. This feature could be implemented in the form of a 3rd-party service menu, but I do not think it belongs as a part of the default KDE installation.