Project proposal for SoK 2015-16

[Arnav Dhamija]

Hello everyone, I am a first year undergraduate computer science student 
interested in the Season of KDE.

*Name:* Arnav Dhamija

*College:* BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

*Country:* India

*Project title:* Trays Extension for the Dolphin File Manager for 
improving GUI file selection operations 
<https://season.kde.org/?q=view_projects&prg=36&p=456>

*Project Description:* 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. Often, when copying files 
between devices we might find that we need to select only a subset of 
the required files and this leads to the unwieldy operation of removing 
files from our selection.

My solution to this problem is to introduce the concept of a "pane" or a 
"tray" within the Dolphin file manager as an extension.

This tray is a completely temporary location where the file pointers to 
the required files are stored (much like how files are stored on the 
computer clipboard) and items on the tray are only saved for that session.

Files can be added to this tray by using a right-click context menu 
option or by using the mouse scroll click or by drag and drop.

Actions can then be collectively performed on all the items on the tray 
- such as copy, paste, cut, upload images in selection to Facebook, 
upload files to Dropbox, etc. This will enhance Dolphin's productivity 
tools.

*Technical requirements:* QWidgets, C++, Dolphin file extensions, QML

*Timeline and availability:* I have already developed a basic standalone 
QWidgets application which demonstrates what this project is trying to 
achieve. The next step would be to improve the stability and usability 
of said application and then to port it over as a Dolphin File Manager 
extension. I will be available for further development and programming 
after 11th December 2015.

*Why me:* I am enthusiastic about open source software and have past 
experience with using open source libraries such as SFML to develop 
applications. I have a decent grasp of algorithms and I am willing to 
learn as much as possible to improve my technical skills.

Currently this project has an undecided status on the SoK page: 
https://season.kde.org/?q=view_projects&prg=36&p=456. I would be much 
obliged for further discussion and guidance on the same

-- 
arnav dhamija
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