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Calling a file manager Dolphin is a particularly bad one.

• rolenthedeep 4y ago
  Not only is it just a bad name for a file manager, it breaks the k-prefix name convention (which is also a bad convention imo)
• aardvark179 4y ago
  I mean I can guess how they got there. Shell led to Nautilus, and then they thought their shell should be named after another sea creature? The seems like classic imitator product naming really.
  • seba_dos1 4y ago
    It's not and never was a shell; Plasma is.
• nhchris 4y ago
  Could be worse - it could be named 'Files'. Good luck searching for help...
  • zinekeller 4y ago
    "KDE Files" - done Apple, Google and Samsung have done it, why not KDE?
    • notwokeno 4y ago
      Apple's graphical shell is called Finder unless they renamed it for some reason.
      • goosedragons 4y ago
        On iOS the file manager is called Files.
        • sentientslug 4y ago
          Calling the Files app a "file manager" is being extremely generous
  • heckelson 4y ago
    there is a program by KDE called Kile, but it's not what you think - it's a LaTeX suite
• tmtvl 4y ago
  Is it worse than "Konqueror" or "Krusader"? Regardless, I don't see what's so bad about "Dolphin," it seems just as good as Nautilus, Nemo, Thunar, Finder, Midnight Commander, Caja, Ranger,...
  • aliswe 4y ago
    Explorer ...
    • tmtvl 4y ago
      That's an internet browser, right? Surely nobody would make two different applications and give them the same name.
      • devaler 4y ago
        Internet Explorer is the browser, Explorer is the file manager. Not that Microsoft has made it confusing </s>