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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thank you for the email.
Some peculiarities of the File Tray include new context menu
options and the option to directly add files by simply dragging it
to the File Tray directory view. While the implementation using
Tags with modifications would certainly work (and is a very good
idea for making this much simpler!), I'm not sure if relying on
tags and filter options will cater to all the unique needs of the
File Tray as the File Tray requires its own Places panel option.
By my understanding, when items are dragged into the File Tray,
the tags will be automatically updated to include it. Maybe the
panel for the File Tray could simply be a filter of all the
directories which are tagged to it? The idea using the clipboard
doesn't appeal to me too much however, as drag and drop-ability to
the File Tray is a feature I am keen on implementing.<br>
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The thinking behind using KIO Slaves was because it would make it
much easier to create a Plasmoid to take care of such a role and
other KDE applications such as Konqueror can also benefit from
such a feature. Dolphin's Split view would instantly be easy to
incorporate. Context menu options and more features can also be
added this way. Of course, the cost of these benefits would be a
more challenging approach to programming the application.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 21 January 2016 07:48 PM,
Kevin Funk wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:30:18 AM Luca Ferrari wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Arnav Dhamija <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arnav.dhamija@gmail.com"><arnav.dhamija@gmail.com></a>
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<pre wrap="">My solution to this problem is to add a Places option in Dolphin where the
links to files and folders can be temporarily saved for a session. The
files and folders are "staged" on this panel. Files can be added to this
tray by using a right-click context menu option, using the mouse scroll
click, or drag and drop. As an additional option, the session for the
File Tray Panel can be saved for later use. Hence, complex file
operations such as moving files across many devices can be made easy by
staging the operation before performing it.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your proposal, but the first thing that
comes into my mind is to build this feature on top of tags: assign a
special tag to files in different locations and then filter by tags,
copy, paste (and optionally remove the special tag).
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+1. Exactly my thought.
This is a common way to organize your image galleries. Digikam has great
support for this kind of usage scenario.
You first go through an arbitrary list of images (not necessarily in the same
directory), label each of them as you wish (I think Digikam offers Alt+{1,2,3}
shortcuts), and then just filter by label and do the move operation.
I don't see why this particular feature needs a dedicated KIO slave.
Greets,
Kevin
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<pre wrap="">Another approach, less intuitive, could be to use the clipboard
content: if you select "copy" from right click menu on one file at
time, without pasting it, the clipboard content stores the selected
files. You can then pop from the clipboard all the "mark for copy"
files later.
Hope this helps.
Luca
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<font face="arial">arnav dhamija</font></div>
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