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By: dk88

dk88 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:17:02 +0000

What about a true control panel system ?
Yes I know there is already one but many module are missing. For exemple, we can have something for Disk partitioning, Grub menu editor, managing daemon, etc…
I know that different distribution mean different program choice, and path, etc… but with a specific-distribution backend, and a generic frontend I pretty sure it’s can be done.

By: Stecchino

Stecchino — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:09:50 +0000

Hi Enrico. how about that animated Amarok toolbar you mocked up and we discussed at Qt devdays 09 in Munich. Just mail us (amarok-devel). You know you’ll have the support of the whole team.

Bart

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By: Enrico Ros

Enrico Ros — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:01:22 +0000

@Dion: the brainstorm’s good, but not every kind of idea fits in there. they’re some kind of “small items”, I’m looking for bigger “paradigm shift” ideas here
anyway you’re free to post your favorite to the brainstorm or bugs.kde.org if you want

@All: thanks, I’m collecting

By: Nadav

Nadav — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:48:10 +0000

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220891

apps menu like the add widget bar:
http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=38340

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:36:15 +0000

Don’t want to ruin your little private idea collection but how about it some of these find themselves in the KDE Brainstorm? http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?f=83

By: DominicB

DominicB — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:08:00 +0000

+1 for J. Janz’s idea

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:36:01 +0000

Another thing I would apreciate is the possibility of changing the files size in dolphin (basicaly the zoom thing) per directory, so I could for example make the thumbnails of a folder with pictures bigger than the files in my home.
I like a lot the effect of dolphin when you have a folder with pictures, and the icon of the folder have a preview of the pictures, and when you put your mouse pointer above the folder the pictures change with another ones, so you got some kind of slideshow, but this “slideshow”occurs in the folder icon, when in my opinion it should happen in the information panel!

By: suy

suy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:32:40 +0000

Oops, sorry, I pressed submit too soon. More comments:

Right now, filemanagers already look at the presence of a file named “.directory” to know if it has to show a different icon or other stuff. So it’s a matter of adding more fields to this file.

Also, this could improve a little bit the functionality of context menus, which are fine, but are pretty limited for showing information, and only can trigger some stuff.

By: suy

suy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:28:28 +0000

My idea is the following: add some technology (maybe plasma or KParts) that allows tweaking the filemanager per directory. Some examples when this could be useful:
* Allowing to show a “empty trash” button plus some label(s) when you are viewing the trashcan.
* Allowing to show some warning to a user that browses system files that he/she should not modify unless really knows what is doing.
* Allowing to show small tools that do some work on the files in a certain directory. For example, you could add a small toolbar with some information and one or two buttons if the directory is under version control, or if it is your music collection and you want to sync it with your music player without opening a full application.