konqueror file display e.g. file:/*.txt

[nina at agnld.uni-potsdam.de]

Hello!

Thanks for your responses!
as a standard user in the university, you don't have the option to upgrade kde...

the second described method, using tools | view filter
also works in konqueror 3.4 !!

greetings, Nina


> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:56:35 +0200
> nina at agnld.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

>> Hello!
>> In konqueror 3.1 and 3.3 i could enter file:/home/*.txt to display
>> only text files in my home directory. Since konqueror 3.4 this is not
>> possible anymore. is this now a plugin which needs to be enabled?
>> Thank you, Nina
>
> Hello, Nina
> I had not heard of that feature before, so I tried it to see if it
> works over here.  I typed "/home/steve/*.ods" in the "Location:" bar
> and hit "Enter". Here at least it seems to do exactly what is no longer
> working for you: only the *.ods files that were in the directory were
> displayed.  All of the Directories were still displayed, but the only
> files that were displayed were ones that matched *.ods.
>
> This is on KDE Branch 3.5, updated from source about two days ago.
>
> KDE from the 3.5 Branch also has the following feature (it's been
> around for quite a while): "Tools | View Filter"  If you click on that,
> it will show a list of all the file types that are contained in the
> current directory.  So I just click on the file type for *.ods files,
> and EVERYTHING else dissappears from view.  Directories included :)
>
> In conclusion, I don't know why you have lost the ability to do what
> you wanted, but I do know that it can be done two different ways in the
> most current stable version of KDE.
>
> Steven P. Ulrick
>