Summary: | "autoscript" on a folder | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | François Tissandier <francois.tissandier> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | h.klene |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
François Tissandier
2008-06-02 17:14:55 UTC
Absolutely brilliant idea, I hope it gets implemented. As for security, I can't see it being any worse than a user manually deleting every file in their homedir if they care to and downloading and installing a potenitally nasty trojan laden folder script is also no worse a possibility than an apt-get of a package from a unofficial third party repo. This really seems as easy, as ripping a CD. But there is a significant difference: The Audio-CD was there first and doesn't change during the course of actions. So what's the point of having multiple scripted folders all over the place, if all you want to achieve is to convert files? As conversions are almost always lossy, I strongly recommend against leaving such an open trap lying around. Moreover the original suggestion involves two copy/move actions, because you would not want the converted results to stay in the conversion folder. So you have to select your current working set twice. Reconsidering the Audio-CD example, what's really needed IMHO is a kind of filter overlay on the folder, to give an easy copy source, that's deactivated on leaving the folder, much like Ctrl-i works. Say, I'm in a folder of wavs and mp3 and activate a wav2ogg filter. All fileextensions of wav change to ogg (hiding mp3 and other unconvertible files), although no file has been converted jet. Now I select those I want and drag them over to another folder. Only after the drop, conversion starts. Hello! This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham |