Search Indicators in Dolphin

[Vishesh Handa]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Frank Reininghaus
<frank78ac at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Vishesh,
>
> 2013/6/6 Vishesh Handa:
> > I was thinking of showing the current directory which it is scanning
> > through, though I'm not sure how I would show that via the GUI or how I
> > would implement that.
> >
> > The reason for showing visual feedback is that if Nepomuk is not enabled
> > searching will take some time, and in that case there should be some
> visual
> > feedback as to where it is searching. Just a "processing" sign is not
> > enough.
>
> Right, I see what you mean. Showing the directory where it's currently
> searching in the status bar might be an option, but I'm not sure if
> there is a clean way to have a kioslave send that kind of information
> to Dolphin.
>

Right. Even I'm not sure how this would be done.

I'll investigate.


>
> >> (b) How would it be implemented?
> >>
> >> One option might be that we check (maybe in
> >> DolphinViewContainer::slotDirectoryLoadingStarted() ?) if Nepomuk is
> >> going to be used for the search, and ask Nepomuk somehow if a message
> >> as described in (a) should be shown, and if that is the case, just
> >> show it in the message widget. But maybe there are other options - I'm
> >> not extremely familiar with the search-related code, so I might not
> >> see the best solution.
> >
> >
> > I'm somewhat familiar with the code. Anyway, that's just an
> implementation
> > detail. I'm sure I can get it to work.
> >
> > The main question now is -
> >
> > Once the implementation is done, should I ask for an exception from the
> > release team? I would also probably need to ask the translation team.
> >
> > Or should we wait till 4.12?
>
> Well, I'd say that it depends on how much it affects the existing
> code. If it's as simple as calling a Nepomuk function to get a string
> that would be shown in the message widget, and that happens only if
> Nepomuk is enabled and not done with indexing (I'm thinking that this
> would not require more than ~20 lines of code on the Dolphin side, but
> I might be completely wrong), then I would not mind if we include it
> in 4.11.
>

The Nepomuk interfacing code will be quite small, but I'm not sure about
the UI code. Anyway, I'll try to implement it tomorrow or next week. Lets
see.


>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>



-- 
Vishesh Handa
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