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

[Waqar Ahmed]

You can also reach out on the Kate group chat and ask for help there.

On Wed, May 18, 2022, 2:54 AM Waqar Ahmed <waqar.17a at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> bugs.kde.org
>> Issues on KDE Invent are used for tracking ongoing work and are for the
>> use of contributors and developers only.
>> ```
>>
>>
>> -----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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