Up to now the view-engine only provided a model-implementation that
supports file-items. The view-engine always had been designed to be able
to work with any kind of model, so now a KStandardItemModel is available.
The plan is to convert the places panel to the new view-engine. It should
be no problem to fix this until the feature freeze - in the worst case
the places-panel code could be reverted while still keeping the
KStandardItemModel changes.
The attached patch sets the main window on the main directory
lister in DolphinView and KIO jobs in DolphinMainWindow to ensure
that login data for remote protocols such as sftp, ftp are cached
properly for the duration of the application. Otherwise, the end
user is going to end up being unnecessarily re-prompted to enter
password login information.
Thanks to Dawit Alemayehu for the patch!
REVIEW: 104614
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
Showing the whole filename unclipped seems to be a good default,
however for users with a lot of files that have extremely long names
this might get a problem especially in the icons-view.
- Allow to limit the maximum number of lines in the icons-view
- Allow to specify a maximum width in the compact-view
(No limit is required for the details-view, as the name is shortened
automatically to show other columns)
BUG: 288596
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
See http://agateau.com/2011/04/21/kde-ux-2011/ for more details.
This simplifies the statusbar in Dolphin a lot and allows to
do a proper eliding in case if status-messages are too long: In
this case a tooltip will show the whole status-message (thanks
to Wolfgang Mader for the initial patch!).
There is still missing some finetuning but the general approach
seems to work quite nice.
BUG: 249638
BUG: 245618
BUG: 146533
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
- Move all private headers from the kitemviews-directory into
the 'private' subdirectory.
- Get rid of DolphinDirLister and just use a directory-lister
internally in KFileItemModel.
- Minor interface-cleanups for signals
If the sorting is done for data which is resolved asynchronously
(e.g. rating), it is important to give a visual feedback about
the state of the sorting. This is done now by a progress
indication in the statusbar.
Also optimizations for "Sort by type" have been done: Although
resolving a type can be expensive in the most often case it is a
very cheap operation. So it the sorting is done by type, try
to resolve the type synchronously for at least 200 ms to prevent
a asynchronous resorting. This is usually sufficient to have
resolved types even for directories with several thousands of
items.
BUG: 292733
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
The feedback on bugs.kde.org has shown that the previous behavior
(= show size with best-matching unit) is preferred by most users.
I initially wanted to make this configurable, but for implementing
it in a non-hacky way extending KLocale from kdelibs would have
been required. I'm not sure whether the usecase in Dolphin justifies
having such a configuration in KLocale - however as kdelibs is frozen
at the moment this is no option and the old behavior has been
restored.
BUG: 289850
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
- Handle 'Context Menu' settings as part of the services
- Handle 'Version Control' settings as part of the services
- Move the confirmations-settings into own tab
- Use combobox for view-property settings
- A lot of minor spacing cleanups
It is up to the plugins to decide what sensible size is required for
creating a preview, this cannot be decided by the user for all
plugins. A maximum size only makes sense for remote files, where
the user implicitely decides how much of the bandwith may be used
for having previews.
BUG: 273226
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
Aligning the control-button to the right of Dolphin has the problem
that sub-menus might be opened on the left of the menu if the Dolphin
window reaches the right of the desktop. So the toolbar-spacer has
been removed and a default label has been applied to the control-button
to increase the target-area for opening the menu.
When dragging a file within the same Dolphin window and the Ctrl, Shift
or Alt-key is pressed the shape of the cursor was not changed to
indicate the copy/move/link-operation.
BUG: 293850
FIXED-IN: 4.8.3
The option is currently hidden as up to now only Nuno requested it,
but it seems to be urgent: "my icon making productivity has drop subtantialy"
((c) 2012 Nuno)
As I don't want to get blamed for an outdated Oxygen-icon-set I have
no other choice ;-)
CCMAIL: nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com
When filtering items it might be possible that the update of
the widgets is wrong although the model internally has a correct
state.
BUG: 297269
FIXED-IN: 4.8.3
Metadata like image-size, rating, comments, tags, ... can be shown
now in the view (e.g. as column in the Details mode).
Still open: The rating-information needs to be shown as stars.
In the context of this feature also the following bugs have been
fixed:
- Fix visual glitches in the header of the Details mode
- Improve the minimum column width calculation to respect also
the headling and not only the content
BUG: 296782
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
It's now possible to change the timeout, after which any call of
KItemListKeyboardSearchManager::addKeys(const QString&) starts a new
search, from the default value of 5000 milliseconds. This is not used
in Dolphin at the moment, but it permits to reduce the timeout to a
small value in the unit test. Before this change, the unit test took
more than 5 seconds to complete.
(cherry picked from commit 82fc1b54bd)
The previous timeout [QApplication::keyboardInputInterval()] was too
short to do a multi-letter search for users who do not type extremely
fast.
(cherry picked from commit 02eab49b2d)
- Remove KItemListView::preferredRoleColumnWidth() and allow implementing
this as part of derived classes from KItemListWidget. Those derived
classes are aware about the layout and hence also can provide the
preferred role width.
- Make KItemListView::itemSizeHint() non-virtual and also allow
implementing the size hint as part of derived classes from KItemListWidget.
Let derived classes from KItemListView just implement
preferredColumnWidth() for one role of an item instead of returning
a hashtable for a given item-range.
Until now when a new column is added in the case where custom column widths
are used, the automatic resizing has been turned on again. The patch fixes
this so that the current widths stay and the new column gets a proper default
width.
If the user changed a column-width in the details-view, up to now
the width got reset when changing a directory or when restarting
Dolphin. Now the column-widths automatically get remembered for each
directory in case if the user has modified the width. The automatic
resizing is still turn on per default. The storing of the custom
column-width can easily be reset by right clicking on the header and
selecting "Automatic Column Widths" from the context-menu.
Some finetuning is still necessary (e.g. the "Adjust View Properties"
dialog currently is not aware about this setting) but this will
be fixed during the next weeks.
BUG: 264434
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
