Bug 163848

Summary: Dynamic folder view containment
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Jonas Thorell <jthorell>
Component: widget-folderviewAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: aseigo
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jonas Thorell 2008-06-12 02:36:50 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

The dynamic view I have in mind, if you can call it dynamic, is:

Assume you have a folderview set to ~/work/documents.
In that directory you have several sub-directories (say pdf, wordprocessing and what not)
Right now (in 4.0.80), if you click on the direcory icon Dolphin opens up in that directory.

The change I have in mind is that the user could get to choose if Dolphin (or whatever is set as default file manager) should open or whether the folder-view should be updated with the new content (either by using say ctrl, or by an appropriate tick-box in the settings dialogue).
Comment 1 Jared Kells 2008-06-12 06:10:20 UTC 
Perhaps instead we should have a separate fully fledged dolphin plasmoid?
Comment 2 Beat Wolf 2008-06-12 07:52:41 UTC 
that would mean allowing plasmoids with kparts in them.. i would like it
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-06-12 10:43:17 UTC 
> or whether the folder-view should be updated with the new content

this would then imply all sorts of navigation logic and UI. i don't think we want that in the folderview plasmoid.

> that would mean allowing plasmoids with kparts in them.

you can. they look pretty clunky in comparison to a "native" implementation designed for use on a canvas oriented application, but they do work.
Comment 4 Jonas Thorell 2008-06-12 11:32:47 UTC 
"this would then imply all sorts of navigation logic and UI."

Hm, yes. That's true. Never mind then, unless someone thinks of a really good way of adding that without making the plasmoid too complicated and/or cluttered. It's more of a "may be nice to have but very low on the list of things that absolutely need to be implemented".