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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi!<br>
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I am a first year undergraduate student at university interested
in working for KDE for the GSoC 2016. A short summary of my
project idea is as follows:<br>
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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 or in completely different
directories. Often, when copying files between devices we might
find that we need to select only a subset of the required files we
have selected and this leads to the unwieldy operation of removing
files from our selection. Of course, the common workaround is to
create a new folder and to put all the items in but this is a very
inefficient process and can be very slow if large files need to be
copied between devices. <br>
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My solution to this problem is to add a panel/view 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. <br>
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Hence, the user can add folders and files from several different
directories to this panel and can then collectively perform
actions on all the items in the tray such as copy, paste, cut,
archive, rename, create list of symbolic links, etc. This makes
complex file operations easy by staging the operation before
performing it. This panel works very similarly to the Split view
already existing in Dolphin to make additions such as drag and
drop very easy.<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 drag and drop.
As an additional option, the session for the File Tray Panel can
be saved for later use.<br>
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More information, mockups, and potential use cases for this
project can be found here: <a
href="https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126622/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126622/">https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126622/</a></a><br>
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So far, this project idea has received positive feedback from the
KDE Usability team. I am now in the user requirements research
phase of this project, and I have created a short survey to assess
the needs of users here: <a
href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L9LDW2P"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L9LDW2P">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L9LDW2P</a></a><br>
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I look forward to the participation of those interested in this
survey to make Dolphin an even better file manager : ) <br>
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<font face="arial">arnav dhamija</font></div>
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