Folder View becomes smarter
After some hacking I have got a nice requested feature for the folder view containment. Mime type filter support. I took some screenshots so you can have a look yourself.
The filter is set to “show all file type folder that starts with kde”.
This time the pattern filter is null, so the folder view shows all folders on my home directory.
I set a “hide all folders on my home directory”.
You will see this very soon on trunk, 4.2.
Categories: KDE Development
Very, very cool! I’m looking forward to organise projects i’m working on in this manner.
My own folderview doesn’t work on beta2 or RC1 – it always says “file not found” when I try to open a folder. Files are okay.
Let’s be able to rename the folder to anything we like – it’s a known bug. Also 100% transparancy please.
That cashew under the toolbar ought to be able to be moved to another (bottom) corner. It’s pointless where it is – the whole point of having it in the corner is to make it easy to hit with the pointer. The Kickoff button ought be be available as a cashew too.
@fgerajklklj: We’ve tried 100% transparent folderview background, it has the problem that you cannot tell where the folder is anymore (as it doesn’t cover the whole desktop. So you get magic areas where the desktop behaves different than in others (filemanager vs. plasma functionality). As you can see in Rafael’s screenshot, we’ve therefore made the background more transparent so it’s not a direct hit into your eye anymore. For 4.2 we’ll have full-screen folderviews available, so that issue is addressed as well.
By the way, this new filtering interface is *not* part of KDE 4.1, which is to be released next week. It has been committed to trunk/, which is the tree that will become KDE 4.2 in January.
I like it a lot, thank you (before that, I did’nt knew how to show folders only).
Now the config dialog is a little bit full and could “scare” some users. Maybe an expanding dialog box with a “advanced filtering” button could resolve this (the default view should only show “show the desktop / show a custom folder parts)
@DanaKil
very good idea! i would like to have an expand button.
thanks for the folderview improvements!
plasma rocks!
Thanks Rafael! I was the one who requested mime filtering so literally (and technically) you’ve made my wish come true
Any possibility of backport to kde 4.1 or perhaps 4.1.1?
Hi all !
Thanks for your comments !!
@DanaKil: we can study that possibility. I will let this as it is for now
@cruzki: nope
. Our rule is that 4.1 is closed for new features (sure this is a new feature), and 4.1.x are for bugfixes only. However, depending on what distro you are using (and what KDE 4 packages), you probably can get KDE 4.2 on some unstable flavour of it.
Today my sister (an economics students who uses Debian with KDE 3.5, mostly managed by me, but that’s changing
) saw my KDE 4 desktop. And, of course, the Folder View for her first time. I told her how it works and what things are pretended to be done in the future.
She loved the idea. But she said she would like a yakuake-like folder view: you can make it appear and dissapear from the desktop as a Quake console. We both love free space in our desktop, so I felt in love with the idea too.
So, there is a new “wishlist” idea
Anyway, ***kudos*** for the great work!!!
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer,
yes, that would be very cool!
> @DanaKil: we can study that possibility. I will let this as it is for now
Erm, that kind of mentality is one of the reasons why we have lots of really embarrassing dialogs all over KDE which appear cluttered. DanaKil has pointed out a very valid issue (that immediately struck me as well when I saw that screenshot).
As a programmer I believe that it’s out duty to fix obvious usability bugs and treat them just like embarrassing memory leaks.
Without your changes the dialog is easy to get and immediately understandable. After your additions it’s simply very hard to grasp and totally cluttered. So please fix this as soon as possible. I’m sure that usability people will offer their help.
Thanks,
Torsten
Great! And how about making it possible to sort the entries? I would love to be able to have a Folder View pointing to my Downloads folder sorted by decreasing modification time!
\m/ rock on!
There are lots of things are potentially possible with Folder View and this could just be the start.
I remember Aaron talking about a lot of this, as have others, about how this technology can actually change things like work flow and how users approach it.
What I’m sorta looking forward to is the day when I can associate one or more applications to a custom folder I’ve created so that all I do is bring it up and I’m ready to work on the project or whatever that is related to the custom folder. (One of the things Aaron alluded to when he talked about Folder View.) This is exciting stuff.