If one searches for a file or folder and gets several results, it is not easy to see where they belong to. Example: A user has a file called myFile.txt in several locations, assume $HOME/Documents and in $HOME/tmp. If she searches for it by filename and does search in everywhere, she gets both as a result. But how can she distinguish between them? Only by the complete path. Now she has to add the complete path as a column to dolphin and move it to the left in order to see it without the need to scroll, but then it's still there if she "closes" search, which might not be necessary at all or even disturb her. So dolphin currently lacks the possibility to easily see where a search result has been found. There should be a place where this Information is shown or can be shown, I think of either the information panel on the right or the status bar. Reproducible: Always
> So dolphin currently lacks the possibility to easily see where a search result has been found. Enabling "Additional Information -> Other -> Path" should work.
As I've written in my report that works, but: It adds the path to the columns that are always shown - not only during a search! So someone who wants to keep the dolphin window light and clear and therefore only selects the most important columns (which don't include the path since it is quite long most of the time) cannot see where a search result belongs to. But with my proposition of always showing the path of the selected search result in the status bar or inside the information panel, this problem is eased.
> It adds the path to the columns that are always shown - not only during a search! Do you have "Use common properties for all folders" enabled in Settings -> General -> Behavior? It should work with "Remember properties for each folder" ;)
> howing the path of the selected search result in the status bar Good idea! Dolphin does something similar for links already, maybe we can reuse it. Will have a look at it ;)
Yeah that's true, for links the target is shown; would be great to have the same in the search results view! Thanks for looking into this!
KFileItem::getStatusBarInfo() has the functionality to detect "target url != url" matches already :) So we have to adjust the filename- and baloosearch ioslaves, so that they report the target url properly.
*** Bug 304890 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 268697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 402982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 419304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 432322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > *** Bug 432322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** OK, since this has been marked as a duplicate, I strongly suggest that solution would imply showing location on dolphin' information panel instead of on status bar, as it is already used for other things and enabling split view would make it even more difficult to see location even on maximized window.
Also, possibly related Bug 186376
Definitely related, yeah. Adding this functionality to the Information Panel makes sense.
Git commit 466fa20f7faf26ef2df2453da1622e0805564140 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 28/03/2022 at 12:56. Pushed by broulik into branch 'release/22.04'. [ViewProperties] Apply better default roles for special views This adds the following additional special view modes (some of them were already there but broken because they weren't applied, or were changed to have better defaults now that they are actually used): * Recent Files and Recent Documents, timeline: Details view with grouped sorting enabled and Name, Path, Modified * Search For Images: Icon view with Name, Dimensions, Date Time of the Picture * Search For Audio: Details view with Name, Artist, Album, Duration * Search For Videos: Icon view with just Name * Search For everything else, including Documents: Details view with Name, Path, Modified * Trash: Details view with Name, (Original) Path, Deletion Time Related: bug 400969, bug 186376 FIXED-IN: 22.04.0 M +31 -10 src/views/viewproperties.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/466fa20f7faf26ef2df2453da1622e0805564140
Great, thanks!