Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.2) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs Hello, IMHO konqueror should have a means to display directories together with files. This is very useful when you are ordering by name. This is also done by Windows XP when "arranging by groups" (and ordering by name). RATIONALE: This feature is important because extraction tools (winzip, winrar, etc) have a tendency to extract the file in a directory with the same name as the file. Thus you often have a directory with name DDDD and a file with name DDDD.zip. If they are located close to each other, you can see that you have a duplication, and remove one of them. example: when I order by name, I want to see the following artificial-intelligence/ <-- this is a dir artificial-intelligence.zip <-- this is a file this-is-a-file/ this-is-a-file.tar.gz this-is-a-file.tar.bz2 SUGGESTED FIX ----------------------------- Konqueror should have an options "directories intermixed with files" or "directories first". This should be useless when you are sorting by type, but should be used when sorting by name, date, permission. FURTHER IMPROVEMENT ------------------------------------------- Even better would be to separate the letters, just like XP does: A --- artificial-intelligence/ <-- this is a dir artificial-intelligence.zip <-- this is a file T --- this-is-a-file/ this-is-a-file.tar.gz this-is-a-file.tar.bz2
Note that such option already exists in the iconview mode (but not the listview). Great argumentation, BTW.
There is a _much_ better motivation than that of archiving tools. I keep a "books" directory where I store my ebooks. Some of them are in html format, some in pdf. The former will be directories (containing a bunch of html files), the latter will be single files. But, semantically, they are all books, so I don't want a distinction. When I order by name, I want to press N in konqueror and be teleported to the first book whose name starts with N. THEN I WANT TO VISUALLY CHOOSE ONE AMONG THEM. For this to be possible, they must be listed close to each other.
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@Peter: What do you think about this ? It could be grouping the list and the column view... is it interesting for dolphin?
@FiNeX: I agree that this kind of option should be available. This feature was available in KDE 3 (I think it was represented by a checkbox "Sort folders first") and the only reason to drop this feature was limited time during the KDE3 -> KDE4 port. I've changed the product to Dolphin, so that I don't forget about it... (-> will automatically be available in Konqueror too). BTW: thanks Maurizio for the good bug report, it's great that you explained in detail why you miss this functionality :-)
SVN commit 956814 by freininghaus: Make it configurable if folders and files are sorted separately (with folders first) or not in KDirSortFilterProxyModel. A commit that makes use of this in Dolphin and Konqueror in KDE 4.3.x will follow later... CCBUG: 62007 M +29 -10 kdirsortfilterproxymodel.cpp M +12 -1 kdirsortfilterproxymodel.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=956814
SVN commit 956820 by freininghaus: Let the user choose if folders are always shown first in the views of Dolphin and Konqueror (the default) or not. This setting can be changed in the View menu: "View->Sort By->Folders First". FEATURE: 62007 M +9 -0 dolphincolumnview.cpp M +1 -0 dolphincolumnview.h M +6 -0 dolphincolumnwidget.cpp M +1 -0 dolphincolumnwidget.h M +5 -0 dolphincontroller.cpp M +18 -0 dolphincontroller.h M +1 -0 dolphinpart.rc M +17 -0 dolphinsortfilterproxymodel.cpp M +2 -0 dolphinsortfilterproxymodel.h M +1 -0 dolphinui.rc M +35 -0 dolphinview.cpp M +18 -0 dolphinview.h M +17 -0 dolphinviewactionhandler.cpp M +8 -0 dolphinviewactionhandler.h M +5 -0 settings/dolphin_directoryviewpropertysettings.kcfg M +14 -0 settings/viewpropertiesdialog.cpp M +2 -0 settings/viewpropertiesdialog.h M +13 -0 viewproperties.cpp M +3 -0 viewproperties.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=956820
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