Bug 112236 - Make filter toolbar more discoverable
Summary: Make filter toolbar more discoverable
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2005-09-08 14:46 UTC by Janet
Modified: 2009-05-24 19:22 UTC (History)
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Description Janet 2005-09-08 14:46:22 UTC
Version:           3.4.1 (using KDE 3.4.1, Debian Package 4:3.4.1-1 (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-5)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11-kanotix-7

KMail and the icon dialogue have a great filter search bar to locate mails/icons which contain a given letter sequence. It would be great if the konqueror filemanager would have a similar finder (option to display) so I can filter out all files and folders in the current directory that contain a special letter  sequence. Would make things much easier to find :)
Comment 1 Chani 2005-11-03 01:40:16 UTC
I agree. my folders are a mess :) being able to search them would be nice
Comment 2 Janet 2006-03-11 02:02:00 UTC
I'm very puzzled - this feature exists! Why is there no "official" way to activate it (kcontrol or konqueror settings) so that every user can find it? Look at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=22720 
Comment 3 rgpublic 2006-03-22 19:58:20 UTC
I'm using KDE 3.5.1 with Kubuntu and the dirfilter bar is available for
adding in the left-hand pane when I click on configure toolbars. Dont know if this is the distro or KDE though. I think this feature is still hidden,
because it contains some awful bugs at the moment. Nevertheless, I think
it's extremely useful already. YMMV though.
Can this specific bug be closed then?
Comment 4 Michael Zaugg 2006-03-31 01:24:19 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 5 Adam Porter 2006-05-19 10:32:47 UTC
Any progress on this?  I can't figure out how to enable this in the mainToolBar by editing the .rc files.  *sigh*
Comment 6 Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2006-09-29 04:52:01 UTC
use konqueror quick filter:
 http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22720
 
 run this:
 tar -jxvf 22720-konq_quickfilter.tar.bz2 -C ~/.kde 
 
 and restart KDE session. The location bar automatically resizes.
Comment 7 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-30 10:32:46 UTC
Install kdeaddons, and then enable the dir filter as follows:
1. Open konqueror in File Management mode
2. Settings->Configure Toolbars
3. Choose "Filter Toolbar <DirFilter>"
4. Add the "filter field" and "clear filter field" items to the menu.

I think this is too complicated, but the functionality *is* available in the KDE main modules.
Comment 8 Janet 2006-11-01 20:10:40 UTC
Thanks Philip for pointing this out. I haven't noticed that there's a special filter toolbar available because it is not listed under Settings - Toolbars. Maybe that's the point that would help: 

1. adding the filter toolbar to the toolbars list by default
2. having at least the filter field in the filter toolbar by default

so that the user sees the feature is available (1) and can turn it on/off as any other toolbar.

Remains the question how shall the user know that he/she has to install kdeaddons to get that feature? Maybe list the filter toolbar under Settings and when the user wants to enable it and kdeaddons isn't installed a message pops up that kdeaddons is missing...
Comment 9 Philip Rodrigues 2006-12-11 23:55:58 UTC
Retitling to reflect comment 7
Comment 10 Janet 2009-05-24 19:22:12 UTC
Well, shouldn't this be closed? It still is a little complicated to activate in KDE4 because it doesn't contain entries by default and it's not activated by default when konqueror is in filemanager mode and it cannot be used only in filemanager mode but that's IMHO something different (Bug 191974).