Bug 325676

Summary:	folder sidebar which shows only folders inside the user's home
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Janet <bugzilla>
Component:	panels: folders	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.11.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
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Description Janet 2013-10-05 19:18:39 UTC

The sidebar with the folders always shows the whole tree. In some use/r cases it would be desirable to have a sidebar which only shows the folder tree of the user's home folder and all system folders are hidden. It seems to confuse certain users to see folders they are not allowed to use. It does not confuse me but I see the benefit of it and would use it too as it gives a better overview of the what I can use. This could also allow to see the user's home folder aligned tight left to the sidebar's edge and not starting somewhere near the middle of the pane.

This could be either achieved by an additional panel which just shows the user's folders or a configuration for the folder panel to either show the whole tree or begin with the user's home and show only that.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2013-10-07 12:20:43 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion, Janet! I agree that many users probably work with folders inside their home folder most of the time, and that it might be useful in some situations to not show the contents of the root folder inside the panel.

(In reply to comment #0)
> This could be either achieved by an additional panel which just shows the
> user's folders or a configuration for the folder panel to either show the
> whole tree or begin with the user's home and show only that.

An additional panel would be too much IMHO. At first, I thought that the best way would be to detect automatically if the current URL is inside the home folder and use ~ as the base of the panel if that is the case.

However, it seems that Dolphin did something very similar before KDE SC 4.1 (not only for ~ though, but for every "Place"), and people did not like it much, see bug 150941.

I'm not sure what the best solution is. Maybe doing this "automatic detection" by default and using either / or ~ as the base of the panel, and adding an option in the panel's context menu to force to use "/" (the current behavior) could be a solution. But then this would clutter the context menu, and I'm not sure if this issue is important enough to justify that.

Comment 2 Frank Reininghaus 2013-10-18 10:37:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 191917 ***