Bug 419875

Summary:	Ability to add custom sections to the Places panel
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	Places	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	edarocha1324, kdelibs-bugs, kfm-devel, loudsquid, nate, postix
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	5.69.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169751
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description postix 2020-04-09 14:04:49 UTC

Places are a nice tool to pin folders for quick access. 
However, having too many clutters the panel again. For example I have 3 folders for university stuff, 2 for photography, 2 for programming, the the standard home folders, etc.

To counter this, I think it'd be convenient to enhance it. Here are some ideas:

1) Category-Folders for folders
Similar to bookmarks like in the FireFox browser, folders in places could be added to a "top-folder"

2) Folders, which belong a to certain category could gain a visual indicator, like a special colored background, a colored bar on a side

3) Titles could be added above the folders

4) Separator lines could divide categories


I hope you understand my problem and maybe you even have better ideas how to improve Dolphin in this section. :)

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-04-09 16:46:12 UTC

1 & 2: nested places have been rejected before. Dolphin in fact already has a real web browser style bookmarks feature (show menubar > Go menu > bookmarks) for people with sufficiently advanced needs such as these.

3: Sounds like you would like to be able to define custom groups essentially. Let's use the bug report to track this.

4: Already tracked with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169751

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-08-04 19:23:35 UTC

*** Bug 457489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***