Dolphin - hide blank metadata

[Todd]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Todd,
>
> first of all, thanks for your message and for your interest in
> improving Dolphin!
>
> 2012/8/29 Todd Jennings:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My name is Todd, and I am interested in doing some fixes and enhancements
> > for dolphin.  The first issue I would like to fix, if it isn't fixed
> > already, is the handling of empty metadata in dolphin's file browser
> view.
> > In 4.9.0, when a particular file doesn't have a given metadata item, that
> > item is listed as a "-" below the file, while still taking up the line.
>
> Yes, this is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304752, and I agree
> that this should be fixed.
>
> > In my opinion, this limits the usefulness of mimetype-specific metadata
> such
> > as "word count" or "image size", since files belonging to a mimetype that
> > that metadata is not relevant to will still show that blank line.
> >
> > I see two possible approaches to solving this:
> >
> > 1. restrict that metadata to only files of a valid mimetype.  So, for
> > example, word count would apply only to text mimetypes.  There are two
> > problems with this approach.  In this example, not all documents that
> have
> > word counts are in the text mimetype, some are in the application
> mimetype
> > (like vnd.ms-word).  The second problem is that there is at least
> possible
> > relevance of some of these to different mimetypes, for instance the
> > "orientation" could apply to documents as well as images, and just
> because
> > it doesn't do that now doesn't mean it never will.
> >
> > 2. hide empty lines.  So any line for metadata that is not present for a
> > file will not show up at all.  This avoids the problems with 1.
>  However, it
> > has the problem that you can't always tell what metadata might apply to a
> > file so you can't add it manually.  I don't see this being that much of
> an
> > issue, personally.
> >
> > I prefer approach 2.  It should also be much easier to implement.
> >
> > However, I don't want to do this if it is already done, or if this
> change is
> > opposed by the developers, so I wanted to check first before starting.
>
> I also prefer option 2. Feel free to work on this! If you have any
> questions or you encounter any problem, just ask!
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>


A quick question: are there any sort of BIC rules for dolphin?  It looks
like the simplest way to do this is to change a function declaration from
const pass by reference to non-const pass by value, but this appears to be
a BIC.

-Todd
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