Project Filtering

[Milian Wolff]

On Sunday 28 July 2013 22:11:12 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > 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:
> > 
> > .*
> > */.*
> 
> The only thing I have found that hides my builds/ folder from the project
> is to specify
> 
> */builds/
> 
> Removing any character (leading star or trailing slash) makes the filter
> not work anymore. This is a bit too hidden IMO. It also suggests that the
> project-specific filtering is not done based on the project folder as '/'
> but rather taking the invisible tree-root as '/'.
> 
> Using a trailing slash as a difference to say I want only folders matching
> the pattern to be filtered is fine, but it should be noted in the UI (at
> least in a tooltip). And the necessity to add a leading */ is certainly
> unexpected for me.

Yep, I agree that this needs improvements. Imo, an explicit GUI would help a 
lot, where one can explicitly configure on what a pattern should match and so 
on, as I explained in the above email.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de