Bug 340302

Summary: Please add an "open parent directory" option to krunner
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: S <sb56637>
Component: generalAssignee: Vishesh Handa <me>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: mail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 5.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description S 2014-10-24 12:58:41 UTC
Hi, sometimes krunner finds a file that I frequently use, and I know that there is another related file in that same folder that I want to open. Since that file isn't very frequently used, it's not prominently ranked in the krunner results. The easiest way in this case would be an option to "Open parent directory" in a file manager. Could this feature be added? Thanks a lot!

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 S 2015-04-30 01:45:11 UTC
Any chance of getting this added? It's a fairly standard feature in most launchers.
Comment 2 Vishesh Handa 2015-05-11 15:56:35 UTC
(In reply to S from comment #1)
> Any chance of getting this added? It's a fairly standard feature in most
> launchers.

We'll first the need to get the concept of actions back for Plasma 5. Currently there is only 1 action per item, which is launch that item.
Comment 3 Mathias Renner 2015-08-11 15:00:32 UTC
Is there any update on this? I would appreciate this option a lot. I switched from OS X and miss this feature a lot In KDE Plasma 5...
Comment 4 Vishesh Handa 2015-08-13 21:07:20 UTC
(In reply to Mathias Renner from comment #3)
> Is there any update on this? I would appreciate this option a lot. I
> switched from OS X and miss this feature a lot In KDE Plasma 5...

There hasn't been any activity on this. There are a lot of things on my KRunner todo list, and this one is quite far down. Specially since showing multiple actions per item clutters up the UI (In my opinion). I was hoping to first implement previews, and then put the additional options over there.

I cannot give an time estimates. But then there are other developers as well :)
Comment 5 Mathias Renner 2015-08-14 11:48:16 UTC
Thank you for the quick reply, Vishesh! And of course for your dev work! Then I will just wait.

A note about cluttering up the UI: IMHO, there is just a shortcut to be added to realize this feature , in the same way as in OS X's Spotlight search: When someone clicks on a search result and presses e.g. CTRL, the parent folder opens instead of the file.
Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-02 13:17:23 UTC
Git commit a18be0a6e61aec32b122a92a4f763e056dc9f644 by Kai Uwe Broulik.
Committed on 02/03/2016 at 13:15.
Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'.

[Baloo Runner] Allow opening parent folder

Since the "Open file manager window job" is not yet finished, this only opens the folder
without highlighting the actual file which will hopefully be added in Plasma 5.7
FIXED-IN: 5.6.0

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D904

M  +22   -0    runners/baloo/baloosearchrunner.cpp
M  +1    -0    runners/baloo/baloosearchrunner.h

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/a18be0a6e61aec32b122a92a4f763e056dc9f644