KonqListView NG

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi Rolf, 

On Thursday 01 July 2004 22:54, kfm-devel-request at kde.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to write a new version of the konqueror list view, and I'd
> like to hear (or rather read) what you people think about it, especially
> about the questions I added. And I'd like to know whether you think it'd be
> better to try changing it, or rather rewrite it.
> Actually, I already started rewriting it - but hey, I can still change my
> mind ;-)
>
> Here are the thought I have written down so far:
>
> The new list view should provide the same features as the existing one and
> make the three known flavours (detailed, tree and text view) avaiable. I'd
> like to merge the meta info stuff into the base class so that all three of
> them support it automagically.

This sounds very good :-)
I had this in mind for a long time .

>   We'll not have a fixed list of columns anymore, but rather one that
> depends on the file type. The user should be able to choose the columns he
> wants, probably using a similar way as The Evil OS(tm) does, by providing a
> popup menu with the available items when the user right clicks on a column
> header.
>   (How will that choice be stored? Per directory, or per mimetype? How
> should a directory with files of multiple mimetypes be handled? I'd say it
> could be similar to the way the info list view handles it. What about
>  variable items that aren't only dependant on the mimetype, but even on the
> specifc file - KFileMetaInfo has those, and some file formats might not
> even have fixed ones?)
>
> - Inline editing of all columns for which it makes sense.

Yeah.

> - A summary row (total size, average bitrate, total playtime of all mp3s in
>   the directory, ... you name it). KFileMetaInfo already provides a way to
>   find out whether it makes sense for an item to sum it up for all files or
>   it's rather better to provide an average (for the play time of an mp3,
>   summing up is more interesting, while for a bitrate, it makes no sense at
>   all). I'd like to finally use that feature somewhere ;-)

How about the status bar ?

> - A background image for the view that reflects directory contents?
>   Like a large sound icon if the directory contains mostly audio files.
Hmm...

> - Maybe extending the vertical size of the selected file's (or even the one
>   that the mouse is hovered on?) row to show more information.
>   (Or would that be considered too disturbing?)
I for one wouldn't like this. Do you mean like e.g. the selected item in the 
software install thingy in win 2k ?

> - A tool tip with preview image, like in the iconview? Or maybe do that
>   using the mentioned "extended size"?

Yeah, preview in the tooltip would be cool :-)

Bye
Alex
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