The new places panel features different categories, such as Places, Devices, Recently Accessed and Search For. Howver, I don’t need the Recently Accessed or Search For thingie and I’d like to be able to hide them because I more need my devices which are then at the bottom of the list (cannot be re-arranged either) and scrollbars are ugly :) There should be a right-click menu that contains checkboxes for the individual categories. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click the places panel Actual Results: A menu appears with Add Entry Unlock Panels Expected Results: A menu appears with 2. Get a menu with [ ] Places (well, this would actually make no sense to hide them) [ ] Recently Used [ ] Search For [ ] Devices --- Add Entry Unlock Panel
It is too late 4.9 as no new strings are allowed, but probably this might make sense for 4.10 (I'm not sure yet). You currently can already hide the categories but it requires more efforts than your suggestion: You need to right-click on each item of a category and select "[x] Hide"
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
I hope this will come very soon, I am very unhappy with the new places sidebar. I now have set my prefered icon size but suddenly new categories appeared which I don't need and which force the devices category out of sight so that I always have to scroll. Please add an option to hide the timeline and search entries - or at least to move them to the bottom.
I overlooked the hint to tick every single entry. Yes, that works, thanks. But hiding complete categories and moving them to a different position would be better.
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What about moving "Recently Used" and "Search For" sections to a new panel ? This way, the user could decide whether he would like show it or not ? Anyway, this bug gets my vote too :)
The thing is that there are users that want one of those two options, and that way you have both or none, so I don't think it's the best solution.
The way Mac OS Finder does it should be the best example: You can collapse each individual category by clicking on its title. Adding yet another panel is out of the question.
(In reply to comment #8) > The way Mac OS Finder does it should be the best example: You can collapse > each individual category by clicking on its title. Adding yet another panel > is out of the question. That really would be the best IMHO. But then it also should be possible to move the collapsed categories to another position (bottom of panel), so that they don't waste space in the visible area of the panel.
*** Bug 313893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 303442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is a patch winding its way through the review process that implements this feature: https://phabricator.kde.org/D8367
author Franck Arrecot <franck.arrecot@kdab.com> 2017-11-22 09:06:35 (GMT) committer Franck Arrecot <franck.arrecot@kdab.com> 2017-12-08 10:57:05 (GMT) commit b8bd61c3650c8264b3d1f4751c8ec659109b13d3 (patch) tree 84b97036ef22d8126eabdde316fd8c354aedda09 parent cd9856d14552809251d11a5d0fc88d63928a7bab (diff) User can now hide an entire places group from KFilePlacesView Summary: Through the ui the user can now right click on a place group and request to hide it. Note: It is not the collapsing solution, which would need a way bigger effort on the model to be achieve but an intermediary solution that could be useful for users. Depends on D8367 Depends on D8948 Depends on D8947 Depends on D8946 Depends on D8945 Depends on D8944 Depends on D8943 BUG: 300247 Test Plan: Manual testing with the ui. {F5459735} (before hidden section) {F5459734} (menu for hiding section) {F5459733} (after hidden section) Reviewers: ngraham, renatoo, ervin, mwolff, mlaurent Reviewed By: renatoo, ervin, mwolff, mlaurent Subscribers: mwolff, #frameworks Tags: #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D8450 Diffstat -rw-r--r-- autotests/kfileplacesmodeltest.cpp 26 -rw-r--r-- src/filewidgets/kfileplacesmodel.cpp 18 -rw-r--r-- src/filewidgets/kfileplacesmodel.h 1 -rw-r--r-- src/filewidgets/kfileplacesview.cpp 44 4 files changed, 85 insertions, 4 deletions
Above commit is for KPlacesView, but not for Dolphin, right?
The Places view and model were moved to KIO, and Dolphin has been refactored to use that. I can confirm that categories are now hide-able in Dolphin.
Dolphin still has its own code for the places view. But you are right, there was a separate commit to add support for hiding groups also for Dolphin. Links below. Commit: https://commits.kde.org/dolphin/5f1df43b87898b380228a3548553de3290ddb0d7 Code Review: https://phabricator.kde.org/D8855