Konqueror Treeview Sidebar plans?

[Simon St James]

Hi David,

On Thursday 24 December 2009 19:20:13 David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 16 August 2008, Simon St James wrote:
> > > > It's currently somewhat broken - one cannot drag files onto it, for
> > > > instance - and I was wondering if it's worth trying to fix it up and
> > > > un-KDE3 it, or whether it would be possible and desirable to use the
> > > > Dolphin tree view? If the latter, how would this be accomplished,
> > > > roughly?
> > >
> > > I think this is a general issue not only related to Dolphins treeview.
> > > E. g. some people requested having the Places Panel or Information
> > > Panel of Dolphin also available in Konqueror. I think the Places Panel
> > > is a good example how this could be done: The widget for the panel is
> > > available inside kdelibs and it would be straight forward providing
> > > this in Konqueror too.
> > >
> > > So we could use a similar approach for Dolphin's treeview and put it
> > > into kdebase/apps/lib/konq. Before doing this I'd like to do some
> > > internal cleanups in Dolphins treeview class, as kdirlister + kdirmodel
> > > have been improved during KDE 4.1 and it is possible now to simplify
> > > the code. Also the Dolphin specific stuff like the context menu must be
> > > exchanged by a more generic approach.
> > >
> > > For sure we must check with David Faure whether the general approach is
> > > OK from his point of view.
> > >
> > > > Could Dolphin provide it via its KPart + Q_PROPERTY type of system,
> > > > or is there some other clever KDE way that I'm not aware of ? :)
> > > > Would it be possible to merge in the popup menu items that are in
> > > > Konqueror but not in Dolphin (e.g. Open In New Window)? Would it be
> > > > possible to set the "root" URL of the tree to either Home or Root
> > > > depending on the tab in the sidebar page clicked? Etc.
> > >
> > > Yes, a lot of things have to be respected to have a clean code base
> > > that can be used by Konqueror and Dolphin. But I think that should not
> > > be too tricky.
> >
> > Ah, okay - I'll wait for David to weigh in before going any further with
> > this :)
>
> Wow. I really have to read this list more often... :(
>
> Yes, I would love for the sidebar (whose code I finally cleaned up, I mean
> the generic sidebar stuff like module handling) to get a new cleaner
> treeview implementation, shared with dolphin's, and also a "places" panel.
> Simon, if you still feel like working on this for 4.5, feel free, and I'm
> offering my help, too. E.g. if you take care of putting reuseable widgets
> in libkonq I can do the sidebar modules around them, for instance (I guess
> this split makes sense, since you know dolphin better than I do, and I know
> the new sidebar module stuff I wrote recently).

I'd love to see this happen, but sadly I don't think I'll have time to work on 
KDE for the foreseeable future :(

Best Wishes,
Simon