sort by frequency in dolphin

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi Aniket,

first of all, thanks for your message and your interest to work further on
improving Dolphin. Please note that you should send messages concerning the
development to the mailing list, rather than in private. This makes sure
that other people are informed about what's going on and can provide
feedback.


2013/4/9 Aniket Anvit

> Hi Frank,
>
> I am looking to contribute to KDE this summer.
> I wanted to ask you If it would be useful if dolphin could sort files and
> folders in the current view according to its frequency of usage....
>
> Although there are a lot of sorting options and 'sort by rating' kind of
> eliminates the need of sorting by frequency.
>
> your opinion..??
>

First of all, I'm not sure how useful such a feature would be. You already
said that "sort by rating" provides a way to sort the items according to
the importance that the user assigns to them.

Moreover, I don't see a way to implement such a thing in an efficient way.
Probably, the only way to do it would be to query the KActivities demon via
DBus, but this would be a very fragile and bug-prone approach that we
should IMHO not follow. Considering how much trouble is caused already by
the KActivities context menu plugin freezing Dolphin [1], I'm strongly
against adding DBus calls to the KActivities demon in any core part of
Dolphin.

Best regards,
Frank

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314575
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