Bug 156264

Summary:	Collapse groups in dolphin group view
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Todd <toddrme2178>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alain, ereslibre, finex, homoludens1000, zeeshanali93
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	SVN
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Todd 2008-01-20 20:59:53 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

The dolphin group view is extremely useful for organizing files.  However, in certain cases there are large number of files in a certain group while you are only wanting to work with files in other groups both above and below that group.  Having to browse up and down past that group is tedious.  It would be nice if you could select a group heading in a certain way and have that group collapse so items in the group would no longer be visible.  All that would be visible would be the group title and some graphical indication that it has been collapsed.  This would be similar to how you can collapse related groups of songs in Amarok 2.  

I am not sure the best way to indicate the group is collapsed.  Perhaps a stack of icons from the group, or have a border around groups and have the border shrink with a jagged line similar to how Amarok 2 does it.  I am also not sure whether it would be best to have this preserved across sessions.  Personally I would say yes, or have that as an option you can set both globally and for specific folders.  The best way for a user to make it collapse (and expand) again is another question.  I would suggest double-clicking on the group title, a right-click menu item, and perhaps an optional toolbar button.

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-01-21 07:36:36 UTC

Thanks for your detailed use case description. I've added Rafael Fernández López to CC, as he is the maintainer of the grouped view.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2009-09-21 00:03:02 UTC

*** Bug 190488 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-09-21 00:03:29 UTC

bug #190488 has some extra suggestion if this feature will be implemented.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:17:27 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann