Bug 426153

Summary:	Add a drilldown functionality
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Antti Savolainen <antti.savo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kfm-devel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	20.08.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description Antti Savolainen 2020-09-03 18:06:56 UTC

SUMMARY
This functionality would allow you to view every file in that folder and in every subfolder at the same time. This would be useful when you want to for example organize images to categories but browse them all in a big pile to select the correct one. This idea is inspired by the feature with the same name found in Kyno https://lesspain.software/kyno/ https://youtu.be/L9VysWRHPdI?t=128

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Right click a folder
2. Select "Drilldown"

EXPECTED RESULT
All files in the folder and every subfolder is shown side by side and can be sorted by name or modification date

Comment 1 Antti Savolainen 2020-11-07 15:11:10 UTC

I found a good use case to justify this feature:
When browsing `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/` for icons, you have several folders and some programs only put icons in one or two folders. If you want to find the source file of a certain icon you find in in the system icon browser, you have look through a massive amounts of folders. Here's where drill down comes in handy. It opens all of the folders at the same time and you can easily browse those icons with your eyes.

Comment 2 Antti Savolainen 2025-05-29 02:29:21 UTC

This could actually be implemented by allowing the user to search with an empty string. Just Ctrl+F and then press Enter.