Developing a new KIO Slave (GSoC 2016)

[Luca Ferrari]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Arnav Dhamija <arnav.dhamija at gmail.com> wrote:
> My solution to this problem is to add a Places option 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. Files can be added to this tray by
> using a right-click context menu option, 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. Hence, complex file operations such as moving
> files across many devices can be made easy by staging the operation before
> performing it.


Maybe I'm misunderstanding your proposal, but the first thing that
comes into my mind is to build this feature on top of tags: assign a
special tag to files in different locations and then filter by tags,
copy, paste (and optionally remove the special tag).
Another approach, less intuitive, could be to use the clipboard
content: if you select "copy" from right click menu on one file at
time, without pasting it, the clipboard content stores the selected
files. You can then pop from the clipboard all the "mark for copy"
files later.

Hope this helps.
Luca