konqy and the model-view-concept in the dirviews

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

in KDE 2 and 3 konqy each dir views in konqy does the directory listing 
itself. Konqy knows only about the current url (i.e. the directory) of each 
view.
Would it make sense to refactor this with Qt4 so that konqy does the directory 
listing and the views really only display the result ?
E.g. when viewing a directory and then viewing a file in this directory, as it 
is now a new kpart is loaded and the status of the dir view is lost. When 
going back from the file view to the dir view the directory has to be read in 
again. But the information which files was just viewed is gone. I think 
having a "current directory" and a "current url" (which will be equal if the 
current url is a dir) and a list of the contents of the "current dir" might 
make some things easier.
It is currently also not possible to do a "go to next file" while viewing a 
file, because at this time the next file is not know (it was known when the 
dir view was still active).

It's not as if I would have time to start working on this now, I'd just like 
to exchange some thoughts on this.

Bye
Alex
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