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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hello everyone, I am a
first year undergraduate computer science student interested in
the Season of KDE.<br>
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<b>Name:</b> Arnav Dhamija<br>
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<b>College:</b> BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus<br>
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<b>Country:</b> India<br>
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<b>Project title:</b> </font><a
href="https://season.kde.org/?q=view_projects&prg=36&p=456">Trays
Extension for the Dolphin File Manager for improving GUI file
selection operations</a><br>
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<b>Project Description:</b> Selecting multiple files in any file
manager for copying and pasting has never been a pleasant
experience, especially if the files are in a non-continuous order.
Often, when copying files between devices we might find that we need
to select only a subset of the required files and this leads to the
unwieldy operation of removing files from our selection. <br>
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My solution to this problem is to introduce the concept of a "pane"
or a "tray" within the Dolphin file manager as an extension. <br>
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This tray is a completely temporary location where the file pointers
to the required files are stored (much like how files are stored on
the computer clipboard) and items on the tray are only saved for
that session.<br>
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Files can be added to this tray by using a right-click context menu
option or by using the mouse scroll click or by drag and drop.<br>
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Actions can then be collectively performed on all the items on the
tray - such as copy, paste, cut, upload images in selection to
Facebook, upload files to Dropbox, etc. This will enhance Dolphin's
productivity tools.<br>
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<b>Technical requirements:</b> QWidgets, C++, Dolphin file
extensions, QML<br>
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<b>Timeline and availability:</b> I have already developed a basic
standalone QWidgets application which demonstrates what this project
is trying to achieve. The next step would be to improve the
stability and usability of said application and then to port it over
as a Dolphin File Manager extension. I will be available for further
development and programming after 11th December 2015.<br>
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<b>Why me:</b> I am enthusiastic about open source software and have
past experience with using open source libraries such as SFML to
develop applications. I have a decent grasp of algorithms and I am
willing to learn as much as possible to improve my technical skills.<br>
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Currently this project has an undecided status on the SoK page: <a
href="https://season.kde.org/?q=view_projects&prg=36&p=456"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://season.kde.org/?q=view_projects&prg=36&p=456">https://season.kde.org/?q=view_projects&prg=36&p=456</a></a>.
I would be much obliged for further discussion and guidance on the
same<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<font face="arial">arnav dhamija</font></div>
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