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The KDE team is working on a Dolphin, a new next-generation file +manager. How many next-generation file managers do we need, anyway? +They still haven't finished fixing the broken ones from the last +generation. I just read +this Ars Technica preview of Dolphin, which aptly states:

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In many respects, Dolphin is reminiscent of the Nautilus file browser + from the GNOME desktop environment.

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Nautilus's defining characteristic has always been the uncanny ability +to waste a colossal amount of screen real estate to convey irrelevant or +redundant information. Believe it or not, some of the things I wrote +about in 2001 still haven't been +fixed.

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But hey, everything old is new again, right? Check out the +awesomely efficient use of screen space in this Dolphin picture:

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+new kde file manager

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