[dolphin] [Bug 416684] New: Feature request: Tagging tabs for quick identification of filesystem location

[Andreas Wallberg]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416684

            Bug ID: 416684
           Summary: Feature request: Tagging tabs for quick identification
                    of filesystem location
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: bars: location
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: andreas.wallberg at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

Dear KDE/Dolphin developers,

Each tab in Dolphin is currently named after the viewed directory. While
working/multitasking on complex workloads, I often find myself having 20-30
tabs open in Dolphin, many of which may have identical/similar names because of
overlapping directory names. This makes it unnecessarily difficult to rapidly
change between the desired tabs.

I have two suggestions for how this could be improved, while preserving my type
of workflow:

1. Allow manual/automated text tagging of a tab:

In addition to showing only the current tab, it could have a separate text tag
prepended allowing some arbitrary text label. Input could be offered after
right-clicking the tab. Alternatively, dragging a directory name from the path
field while in "Navigate" mode and dropping it onto the tab would put that name
into the label field.

Instead of showing only:

-------
| dir |

The tab would show:

--------------
| label: dir |


A new tab opened while viewing the directory shown by a labeled tab would
inherit the label.

Alternatively, paths could be pre-configured to automatically be associated
with a label, such that all directories nested under that path get
auto-labelled. This could be done in a setting similar to how paths are
excluded from searches in Filelight. Alternatively, while configuring "Places"
entry, there could be an option to allow the user to auto-label tabs.


2. Inherited colors for paths.

Allow the user to set arbitrary color schemes for different paths. As above,
this could be controlled through a setting or while configuring a "Places"
entry.

For directories nested under that entry, the tabs themselves could be colored
accordingly, either fully, or with a bold line along the top of the tab or with
a small box/circle/dot in the top left corner of the tab. Alternatively, the
tab text field could be colored/underlined.


Issue that might need some thinking to resolve are how potentially overlapping
settings are resolved, and also, whether labels derived from directory names
should be "dead" or updated after a directory name is changed.

In any case, perhaps this could inspire some ideas for workflow management in
Dolphin. Thanks for a great tool!

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