[dolphin] [Bug 486226] New: Custom Columns as plugin or script in details view

[myusualnickname at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486226

            Bug ID: 486226
           Summary: Custom Columns as plugin or script in details view
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: view-engine: details mode
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: myusualnickname at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

I worked as a document scanner, and we had to have our files match some really
stupid formats.

With microsoft explorer, I was able get the dev environment up, find examples,
and create a column that I could sort by that was a regular expression search
on the name.  I could create a column from the filename where I reordered the
date format to YYYYMMDD and then was able to sort nicely, and it happened
within an evening.

 It would also be nice to be able to refer to a search index, or actually read
the file and grep each file searching the contents and counting the occurrences
of words. Basically, there could be a plugin system, or this feature could be a
custom column with meta data taken from a meta data library (to read resolution
of the image, compression type, number of pages in a pdf or tiff image) and
using a regex on the filename or filename contents.


This would appear as add custom tab, and there should be no limit to the number
of them.  When a custom tab is added to the list of tabs, it can be edited, a
selection of metadata library, regex, or  file search, or shell command.  the
metadata library could populate a submenu with all the types of data.  
bitrate,x pixels, y pixels ,inches,word count, signed date,  there are so many
things this could be.  there may be more than one metadata scraper.

We wouldn't even need to compile anything.
KDE has had cool regex searches in a few applications before, so that may
already have components ready.



Basically, this is an advanced col


***
If you're not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at
https://discuss.kde.org

If you're reporting a crash, attach a backtrace with debug symbols; see
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports
***

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. 
2. 
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.