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Dolphin

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File management in Dolphin
Embedded Terminal in Dolphin
Dolphin lets you configure your file manager exactly how you want

Dolphin is KDE's file manager that lets you navigate and browse the contents of your hard drives, USB sticks, SD cards, and more. Creating, moving, or deleting files and folders is simple and fast.

Dolphin contains plenty of productivity features that will save you time. The multiple tabs and split view features allow navigating multiple folders at the same time, and you can easily drag and drop files between views to move or copy them. Dolphin's right-click menu provides with many quick actions that let you compress, share, and duplicate files, among many other things. You can also add your own custom actions.

Dolphin is very lightweight, but at the same time, you can adapt it to your specific needs. This means that you can carry out your file management exactly the way you want to. Dolphin supports three different view modes: a classic grid view of all the files, a more detailed view, and a tree view. You can also configure most of Dolphin's behaviour.

Dolphin can display files and folders from many Internet cloud services and other remote machines as if they were right there on your desktop.

Dolphin also comes with an integrated terminal that allows you to run commands on the current folder. You can extend the capabilities of Dolphin even further with powerful plugins to adapt it to your workflow. You can use the git integration plugin to interact with git repositories, or the Nextcloud plugin to synchronise your files online, and much more.

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Extensions

Dolphin Plugins

Dolphin integration for revision control systems, Dropbox, and disk images

FFmpeg Thumbnailer

Video thumbnail generator using FFmpeg

FileStash

A lightweight solution for virtual folder support in KDE Applications

Kamera

A plugin to support Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) in KDE applications

kdegraphics-thumbnailers

Graphics file format thumbnailers for KDE applications

KIO AudioCD

Transparent integration of audio CDs with KDE Plasma and KDE applications with data conversion capabilities

KIO GDrive

Google Drive integration with KDE Plasma and KDE applications

KIO S3

Amazon S3 integration with KDE Plasma and KDE applications

Samba Filesharing Plugin

Adds Configuration of Samba sharing for folders in Dolphin

Zeroconf Support

Browse local network services in Dolphin's Network page

Nightly installers

Dolphin nightly installers are also available to download from the KDE CDN. These versions are intended for testing purpose. Get involved and help us make them better!

Unstable version.

Generated from the latest version of the development branch.