Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder (analogous to behaviour of git window)

[Waqar Ahmed]

If you want to work on it yourself, you can just open an issue as I said
earlier. That's fine

On Tue, May 17, 2022, 11:14 PM Stefan Riha <stefan at sriha.net> wrote:

> Thanks! For now I filed it in the bugtracker:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453944
>
> At invent.kde, a message appeared:
>
> ```
> Please note that all bug reports and feature requests should be filed on
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> Issues on KDE Invent are used for tracking ongoing work and are for the
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>
> -----Original message-----
> From: Waqar Ahmed
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17 2022, 7:05 pm
> To: kwrite-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder
> (analogous to behaviour of git window)
>
> sounds reasonable to me.
>
> Best open an issue at https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate <
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate> so that
> more people can respond.
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Stefan Riha <stefan at sriha.net <mailto:
> stefan at sriha.net>> wrote:
> >
> > I just saw that the "options" action of the filesystem browser contains
> an entry
> >
> > "automatically synchronize with current document"
> >
> > Would it be possible to make an entry:
> >
> > "automatically synchronize with the top-level project directory of the
> current file"
> >
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Stefan Riha
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17 2022, 6:24 pm
> > To: kwrite-devel at kde.org <mailto:kwrite-devel at kde.org>
> > Subject: Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder
> (analogous to behaviour of git window)
> >
> > The behaviour of the git window is to "follow" the currently edited
> file, i.e. if the file belongs to a project, then open the project
> automatically. This is great.
> >
> > I would like to configure the Filesystem Browser analogously, that is:
> open the project folder in the Filesystem Browser window automatically (if
> the file belongs to a project).
> >
> > Is this currently possible? I did not see anything related in the
> browser's "configure" context menu. There is a "current document folder"
> entry, but this is cumbersome. First, I have to actively press the button
> (not automatic), and second, the files are often in a subfolder, and I
> almost never want to switch to the subfolder of a project, but instead to
> the project's parent folder.
> >
> > I am used to this behaviour from VScode.
> >
> > What would I have to do to implement this? Would this be best done with
> a plugin?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help!
> >
> >
>
>
>
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