KCoreDirLister::setMimeExcludeFilter()

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 26 d’abril de 2023, a les 18:09:44 (CEST), Jonathan Marten va 
escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> This has been deprecated in 5.100 with the comment "no known users".
> Unfortunately there is a use in Kooka, where it is used to configure a
> KDirOperator (via its KDirLister) to only show files and not
> directories.  This happens at
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kooka/-/blob/master/app/thumbview.cpp#L84
> 
> Although KDirOperator has setMode(KFile::Modes), setting this to
> KFile::File or KFile::Files seems to only affect the selection mode and
> does not stop directories from being shown.
> 
> The API doc for KCoreDirLister::setMimeExcludeFilter() says "Filtering
> should be done with KFileFilter", but from the current KFileFilter doc
> it appears that this will only be able to be an "include this file or
> MIME type type" filter, not an "exclude" one.
> 
> Is there currently - or will there be in the future - a way to configure
> a KDirOperator in a "files only" mode, in the same way as "directories
> only" is currently supported?  If it turns out that KDirOperator::setMode()
> is intended to be have that effect, then I'd be happy to investigate why
> it doesn't.

I guess we should report that deprecation since the assumpion of the 
deprecation is just wrong.

Nico any reason against bringing it back?

Cheers,
  Albert


> 
> Best regards,