On Saturday, 2013-11-16, 13:43:20, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Stephan Sokolow
>
> <gmane.ssoko...@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> > Ugh. Embarassing. I forgot to correct "these five things" when I
> > realized that I should subdivide points 4 and 6 for a nice, clear list.
> >
> > On 13-11-16 07:29 AM, Stephan Sokolow wrote:
> >> Regardless of my DE, most of my apps are GTK+ 2.x apps (things like
> >> Comix, Geeqie, gVim, and Firefox which have no acceptable replacements)
> >> but I definitely like the idea of injecting some decent file dialogs
> >> into the few native Qt apps I have (eg. LyX, GoldenDict, etc.).
> >>
> >> Just give me something that does these five things and I should be
> >> perfectly happy with it:
> >>
> >> 1. Offers a Places sidebar (like GTK+ and KDE but not default Qt) and
> >> supports marking an individual bookmark as specific to a single
> >> application (unlike GTK+)
> >>
> >> 2. Allows me to set a fixed size for any icons in the places sidebar
> >> (unlike KDE 4) rather than throwing off my muscle memory by changing the
> >> height of each row every time I attach or disconnect removable media.
> >>
> >> 3. Lets me rename and delete files from the context menu (like KDE and
> >> the Qt default dialog but not GTK+). I'm sick and tired of having to
> >> open PCManFM and navigate God only knows how deep into my filesystem
> >> just to rename or delete a file that's already right in front of me. (Or
> >> just forget AGAIN for the dozenth time, as usually happens)
> >>
> >> 4. Offers comfortable keyboard interaction and, unlike GTK+, doesn't
> >> force me to start with the "Recent Files" virtual folder selected.
> >>
> >> 5. Has a location bar that actually works rather than GTK+'s tendency to
> >> randomly auto-complete without being asked. (I'm sick of typing
> >> "/usr/bin" and discovering that I got "/usr/sr/bin/in".)
> >>
> >> 6. Has a multi-column small icon view ("Compact View" in PCManFM or
> >> "Short View" in KDE 4) where arrow key motions are commutative and
> >> symmetrical (unlike KDE 4 Open/Save dialogs where list entry bounding
> >> boxes vary in size, allowing the arrow keys to skip over short filenames
> >> sandwiched in between long filenames... sometimes forcing you to grab
> >> the mouse to focus certain files).
> >>
> >> 7. Has a multi-column small icon view that interprets the Up/Down arrow
> >> keys as Previous/Next so that you can reach any file in the current
> >> folder without touching Left/Right. (Again, unlike KDE 4 where pressing
> >> Up at the top of a column or Down at the bottom of a column does
> >> nothing.)
> >>
> >> The ability to switch between location bar and breadcrumb trail
> >> representations of the current path in Open dialogs would also be nice
> >> but isn't essential.
> >>
> >> Also, I don't suppose KDE has any mechanism that would let you override
> >> the dialogs in KDE 4 apps I use like K3b, Filelight, and Okular?
>
> In Qt 4.x, this is down to compiling Qt with KDE integration.Qt4 applications automatically get the KDE dialogs in KDE. Qt handles that (native dialogs). But I think what Stephan was address is having KDE applications not use KDE's file dialog but Qts. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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