Project Filtering

[Milian Wolff]

On Sunday 28 July 2013 01:55:14 Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Saturday 27 July 2013 22:52:50 Andreas Pakulat wrote
<snip> 
> > Unfortunately I still see the same behaviour after removing the old kcm. I
> > can't find a way to filter out a subdir or the contents of a subdir by
> > either specifying the directory (with or without trailing slash) or
> > directory name + /*.
> 
> You don't have a leading slash, do you? I don't remember why I added that
> back then... Maybe to make it possible to disambiguate between something,
> but I can't remember what exactly.
> 
> If that's still not it, please show me the output of "find" in a project
> folder and paste the contents of .kdev4/*.kdev4 [Filters] section.

Ah, I think it's required in order to write something like the following to 
hide dot files:

*/.*

without the leading / we'd need two rules, one for the project root, and one 
for the child folders:

.*
*/.*

Alternatives I see would be

a) regular expressions
b) improved UI which can say: only operate on files, folders, both

Imo, b) allows for many more useful features to be implemented. Such as 

- optimizations (only operate on filename, not relative path)
- better usability (your issues shows that, but also stuff like "hide any 
folder/file named X" should become much simpler)
- pattern syntax selection (the useful stuff of QRegExp::PatternSyntax)
- ...

So yeah, maybe we should just improve the dialog to improve this situation.

Cheers
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Milian Wolff
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