[dolphin] [Bug 431666] Provide list view column and properties for change time (ctime)

[Méven Car]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431666

--- Comment #9 from Méven Car <meven29 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jenny from comment #8)
> (In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #7)
> > If you know what the ctime is you problably also know how to read it from a
> > terminal. IMHO exposing it in the dolphin UI would result in added
> > complexity for 99% of regular users without actual benefits.
> 
> I understand your reasoning, but whether there are benefits for the user or
> not is only secondary and individual.

Well in fact no, everything features and details must be based on real user use
case and needs. 

> 
> A stat command in the terminal for every file and folder is time consuming
> and not practical.

What is your use case ? How would you use the change time in your workflow ?

One command can fetch this for multiple files at once, for instance `/bin/ls -l
-c`.

Adding the change status time to the properties dialog might make sense (this
is not part of dolphin), and maybe to the information panel since it could be
hidden by default easily.

In the views we would need a strong enough argument this is needed for at least
more than an individual user.

Any feature big or small adds visual clutter and potentially confusion to
users, work to developers, translators and documentation writers, bug
triagers...

> 
> Additionally Dolphin would be the first Linux file manager (GUI) that
> supports all timestamps like the stat command.

There might be a reason others have not implemented it....

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