File Browser Branch

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello Alex,

On lundi 28 mai 2018 22:55:33 CEST Alexander Stippich wrote:
> Hello Matthieu,
> Great to hear that you find the file browser useful. I'm currently quite
> short on time,  so please go ahead. It will certainly be nice if these two
> branches will be integrated for the next release.

I did spent several hours on Tuesday working on the file browser branch. I 
have been unable to fix a few problems I have seen.

The most important being that the sort proxy messes up and some entries just 
show up an empty delegate. This is only shown with the sort proxy model. 
Removing the sort proxy model is also not an option, without that the order of 
entries is just wrong.

I have also tried making the navigation faster by leveraging the fact that 
subdirectories can be navigated into by using them as root index when sing a 
DelegateModel to embed the files model. This is currently not pushed because 
issues remain.

I have also worries related to the fact that browsing big directories is 
really much slower than dolphin for example. This is by at least one order of 
magnitude.

I believe we should fix those issues before landing the branch in master. I 
think people will be very happy with this feature but we should make it works 
flawlessly or delays it.

I am sorry for that. I would have loved to be able to push it to the next 
release but I am not confident we can fix the issues before the next stable 
release and we have a feature freeze this Saturday.

> Best regards,
> Alex
> 
> On May 27, 2018 10:48:10 PM GMT+02:00, Matthieu Gallien 
<gallien.matthieu at gmail.com> wrote:
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Best regards

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Matthieu Gallien