| Summary: | Text Editor Panel | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | stellarpower <stellarpower> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | felixernst, kfm-devel, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Mockup | ||
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Description
stellarpower
2025-03-04 18:51:27 UTC
Created attachment 179114 [details]
Mockup
This is technically possible if we integrate support for the katepart. I'm not sure Dolphin's maintainers consider it in-scope though. I do know Konqueror can already do this, and maybe Krusader can too? I would indeed consider this out of scope for Dolphin. As Nate pointed out, Konqueror actually has that feature. You might want to consider that application even though I know that it received less development time recently. As far as Dolphin is concerned, there are plans to offer a QuickLook-like feature that opens file "previews" for files by pressing Space in Dolphin. We are currently aiming for an application called KiView to do that. It might be in scope for that project to also allow light editing. That would probably still be more cumbersome than having a panel though. Maybe a different question comes up - I see there are addons for Dolphin, mostly pertaining to VCS etc. Is it possible for an addon to provide a side-panel? As I wouldn't disagree that functionality like this perhaps belongs better within an addon. I like the idea, others may have no use for it. If not already possible, would that be something more suitable and that people would like to see? IF so can open a new request for discussion there. (In reply to stellarpower from comment #4) > Maybe a different question comes up - I see there are addons for Dolphin, > mostly pertaining to VCS etc. Is it possible for an addon to provide a > side-panel? Currently not AFAIK, but everything is possible. 🪄 > As I wouldn't disagree that functionality like this perhaps belongs better > within an addon. I like the idea, others may have no use for it. If not > already possible, would that be something more suitable and that people > would like to see? IF so can open a new request for discussion there. The thing is that this is very far out there. It basically needs someone with a very strong vision spend a lot of time not only on the infrastructure to add this possibility for addons but then also write an addon which makes use of it. And then we only have one user of this API and it is not clear whether more will come or not. The current VCS addons for Dolphin don't see a ton of change either. And at the end of the day there is still the question what use there is in having any such user interface as a panel in Dolphin. Opening a separate window instead is not all that weird and has the advantage to not destabilise or crash Dolphin. So please feel free to open a new feature request for this if you want, but it needs someone to then figure out how feasible it is, if the effort is well-spent, and if the drawbacks aren't way bigger than any expected advantages. All fair points, don't disagree. I'm thinking at the simplest would it be possible just to have a QML widget that receives the path/URI to the file in question, and can then render what it wants from that? Possibly file metadata too, but that could be looked up independently. The media preview in the details panel is a really nice feature, and to me that seems in a similar vein to this request - I could just right-click and open-with mpv or VLC or whatever, but for me it's proven to be a really useful feature, and I'm not sure how many people requested it initially and haven't seen anything similar in another file manager - but it is nice to have. Whilst "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" on that panel, it seems like it could be worked into a (built-in) plugin in a similar way, taking the current UI into QML and providing a way for it to hook entries into the menu bar for enabling/disabling it. Well Dolphin's UI isn't written in QML, so I'm afraid not. (In reply to stellarpower from comment #6) > All fair points, don't disagree. I'm thinking at the simplest would it be > possible just to have a […] widget that receives the path/URI to the file in > question, and can then render what it wants from that? Possibly file > metadata too, but that could be looked up independently. Well, maybe if some widget existed that could be easily integrated, this would indeed not be too much trouble, but I would still say that it doesn't really currently fit into Dolphin's scope. I guess if it was very little code, it could be considered, but it would stay a bare-bones feature then and users would not necessarily be happy about an imperfect text editor either as long as they know that other text editors in KDE work better. At the end of the day an integrated text editor really sounds like a Konqueror feature and workflow. If there is interest in that, I would hope that project sees more contributions eventually. |