Bug 465843

Summary: Feature request: Show indicator for new folders and files
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl>
Component: view-engine: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kfm-devel
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Karl Ove Hufthammer 2023-02-16 14:49:34 UTC
This is a suggestion for a new feature:

At work, I noticed that Microsoft SharePoint / OneDrive has a usability feature I actually like. *New* folders and files are marked with a special indicator (three small lines). This makes it very easy to spot them in the folder view. Here are a few screenshots (taken from the web) illustrating how it looks:

* https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Bqn_TlvCYG2dmRZpzwV9fijDRTQ7-L6Ov-OITpIfGa65WEqeVLA1AX6i1xmFdXUdvkbxkdEeQwfQux6BFftKtW0czR2TqWL_3_KXpKaf3VZzVFaN4UEgJlw2IQOGthgsAaY--Wm1
* https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.com/api/images/e87a4593-bc74-4f62-9c82-0644c9e9e201
* https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23878i9608333CE926FD1B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999

According to the documentation (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-do-the-onedrive-icons-mean-11143026-8000-44f8-aaa9-67c985aa49b3#ID0EBH=Web), the three lines are called ‘glimmer marks’.

I don’t have any strong preferences regarding the implemention, e.g., how the indicator should look (though I find the sparkling ‘glimmer marks’ very intuitive), or what ‘new’ should be (created in the last 24 hours, created in the current session, perhaps also including ‘recently modified’ files?). But I find the actual feature very useful, as it makes it easier and faster to find the folders/files one is *most likely* to open/edit, without having to sort by ‘last modified’.