https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416684
Bug ID: 416684 Summary: Feature request: Tagging tabs for quick identification of filesystem location Product: dolphin Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: bars: location Assignee: dolphin-bugs-n...@kde.org Reporter: andreas.wallb...@gmail.com CC: kfm-de...@kde.org Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY Dear KDE/Dolphin developers, Each tab in Dolphin is currently named after the viewed directory. While working/multitasking on complex workloads, I often find myself having 20-30 tabs open in Dolphin, many of which may have identical/similar names because of overlapping directory names. This makes it unnecessarily difficult to rapidly change between the desired tabs. I have two suggestions for how this could be improved, while preserving my type of workflow: 1. Allow manual/automated text tagging of a tab: In addition to showing only the current tab, it could have a separate text tag prepended allowing some arbitrary text label. Input could be offered after right-clicking the tab. Alternatively, dragging a directory name from the path field while in "Navigate" mode and dropping it onto the tab would put that name into the label field. Instead of showing only: ------- | dir | The tab would show: -------------- | label: dir | A new tab opened while viewing the directory shown by a labeled tab would inherit the label. Alternatively, paths could be pre-configured to automatically be associated with a label, such that all directories nested under that path get auto-labelled. This could be done in a setting similar to how paths are excluded from searches in Filelight. Alternatively, while configuring "Places" entry, there could be an option to allow the user to auto-label tabs. 2. Inherited colors for paths. Allow the user to set arbitrary color schemes for different paths. As above, this could be controlled through a setting or while configuring a "Places" entry. For directories nested under that entry, the tabs themselves could be colored accordingly, either fully, or with a bold line along the top of the tab or with a small box/circle/dot in the top left corner of the tab. Alternatively, the tab text field could be colored/underlined. Issue that might need some thinking to resolve are how potentially overlapping settings are resolved, and also, whether labels derived from directory names should be "dead" or updated after a directory name is changed. In any case, perhaps this could inspire some ideas for workflow management in Dolphin. Thanks for a great tool! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.