Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: SuSE RPMs On Mac there is a feature called watched folders, so you can assign scripts to certain folders which are executed if some files change within this folder. Would be nice in KDE too: - Automatically copy pics from cam to the pictures-Folder when cam is mounted on the mount point - convert files to pdf when they are thrown to a special directory - automatically append current date to files when they are moved to a directory - much more
@Peter: what do you think about this wish? Could it be interesting for dolphin?
Very interesting feature, but this is out of scope of Dolphin IMO and would be a feature of kdelibs.
No, not in kdelibs. This would be a separate daemon/configuration utility.
There's a related bug 163079 focusing on file conversion actions, overlapping with this as a special case of general script execution. I wonder, if this is really a useful feature to integrate into dolphin. Maybe a standalone demon can watch certain folders and run scripts. The configuration and writing those scripts certainly requires a plethora of options and IMHO necessitates a new application. It's like saying: "I want AutoKey-features in the keyboard-layout switcher ..." just because both applications happen to be related to keyboard input.
I used this feature on macOS many times and really liked it/ Moving the bug report to KIO. This could be implemented as a new tab in the properties dialog I suppose.