qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

tri1976 · 2011-11-18 02:24:34

I notice the horizontal scrollbar is no longer available for tree layout, was it removed intentionally? I kinda miss it.

Wittfella · 2011-11-29 13:34:55

Hey folks! I've been a bit quiet for while, but I have been working on a big change.

I finally got sick of QFileSystemModel (the basis of qtfm) which has a bunch of small issues, and it seemed to be getting worse when I tested with Qt 4.8. Also Nokia/Trolltech have said that QFileSystemModel is depreciated so it won't be getting any fixes anymore. So I bit the bullet and scrapped it, and rewritten my own FS model.

The good news is it fixes a bunch of those little issues we were living with, like hidden folders not disappearing, folder on top sorting etc. The great news is it seems really smooth now, I think its actually faster than the old one when navigating around.

The potentially bad news is when doing huge changes I may have introduced new bugs! I have been testing it and everything seems to be good, all the same functionality is implemented.

I really would like to get some more people to test it out properly. Other people will find problems in two seconds, as is always the way

PKGBUILD: qtfm.tar.gz

Source: qtfm-5.2.beta.tar.gz

I made a new PKGBUILD because now there are more translations (de, it, ru, sr) coming in and it installs them to '/usr/share/qtfm' as it should.

Cheers,
Wittfella

Last edited by Wittfella (2011-11-29 13:37:03)

swanson · 2011-11-29 16:37:04

Seems to be working fine here! But in my little world i'd like files and folders mixed, sorted by date only.

Thank you Wittfella! Great work!

EDIT: seems really quick.

Last edited by swanson (2011-11-29 16:41:50)

anonymous_user · 2011-11-30 01:52:07

The beta version is working fine here. I still see the recurring issue of file/folder labels not being aligned vertically though:

Edit: BTW in Details view, the Filetype column seems to just show the extension or any text after a period. It doesn't actual list proper mimetypes.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2011-11-30 02:28:27)

Wittfella · 2011-11-30 02:55:46

Thanks guys, seems to be working ok, no disasters!

@anonymous I don't experience that so its hard to diagnose. When that happens, what if you resize the window, does it fix itself with a re-layout? Also does it happen at all icon sizes? What icon size do you typically leave it set at?

I found a couple of small issues and have fixed them, like if you type a non-existant path in the address bar it would crash. Also if you typed in a path to a hidden folder it wouldn't go there.

Uploaded again with fixes.
PKGBUILD: qtfm.tar.gz

anonymous_user · 2011-11-30 03:23:15

Changing the window size does not fix it. At 64, it becomes fixed for the thunar archive and at 128 (maximum size) it seems fixed for all files. I normally use Icon view as-is (default is 48 I think?).

Wittfella · 2011-11-30 06:10:06

I think its to do with the way the view handles long filenames and truncates them with the '...' ellipses. I just tweaked the grid size vertical/horizontal ratio, see if it makes any difference.

anonymous_user · 2011-11-30 22:04:42

No difference.

Wittfella · 2011-12-01 05:04:38

The other thing we can try is to set the view to not 'wrap' long names to multiple lines as it does now. It will only ever use a one line truncated with '...' ellipses.

You can see it here, second folder in:

Anyway, try it if you want: PKGBUILD

anonymous_user · 2011-12-01 05:09:43

This one does work! Thanks.

anonymous_user · 2011-12-02 00:01:02

Hey Wittfella, in the right-click menu, could the Delete action be moved so its under Paste? I have quite a few custom actions and they make Delete appear so low on the menu.

Also I recently got a Segmentation fault when moving a folder from my Desktop to my external drive (NTFS partition). Unforunately I was only able to replicate it once.

Edit: also is it possible to not have qtfm separate lower case names from upper case names. For example have it be:

Ab
ac
Ad
ae

instead of:

Ab
Ad
ac
ae

Last edited by anonymous_user (2011-12-02 00:04:28)

Wittfella · 2011-12-02 02:13:53

Hmmm, it should already be case insensitive. Mine looks like your first example. It might be something to do with locale settings. What is your "LC_COLLATE"?

anonymous_user · 2011-12-02 02:24:11

Well that was easy. My LC_COLLATE wasn't even set.

Wittfella · 2011-12-02 03:01:38

Sweet!

Moved 'Delete' also. Another thought, if you have heaps of global custom actions cluttering up your context menu, do you necessarily need to see them all, or are some of them mainly used as keyboard shortcuts.

A neat trick you can do is set the filetype to 'GLOBAL' or 'SHORTCUT' or some such and that way they won't appear in the menu, but they are still usable as shortcuts anywhere.

PKGBUILD

anonymous_user · 2011-12-02 03:45:27

I actually don't use shortcuts for any of my custom actions. Its an interesting thought, but I don't think I use them often enough to worth memorizing weird shortcuts.

Kosava · 2011-12-11 20:09:13

I have problem with qtfm and opening libreoffice files, when i want to open writer file (.odt) it open allways firefox open with dialog, i tried in qtfm Edit filetype to put for (.odt) files libreoffice -writer but still open firefox, and also when i put just libreoffice it again open firefox opening dialog, any suggestion for fixing this problem ?

Wittfella · 2011-12-12 01:45:10

That sounds like a xdg-open issue. What DE are you using?

swanson · 2011-12-12 10:03:34

@wittfella; is there any way of getting the old sorting with files - folders mixed by date ? ( i know i'm backwards)

Wittfella · 2011-12-12 10:50:51

Not without upsetting everyone else I think you are the only person in the world who likes it that way

Wittfella · 2011-12-12 11:09:21

@swanson Ok I whipped you up a custom version that mixes up the files/folders when sorted by date.

qtfm-5.3.beta.swanson.tar.gz

The new version also contains the fix for the size and date columns, which was wrong in 5.2, it was treating them like text, not numbers.

It also contains a new thing which I just added today...see if you can find it.

Normal version if anyone else wants to try it: qtfm-5.3.beta.tar.gz

swanson · 2011-12-12 12:03:30

@wtittfella; are you great or what! Works very nicely thank you! Looking for the secret ...

Kosava · 2011-12-12 23:02:54

Wittfella wrote:

That sounds like a xdg-open issue. What DE are you using?

I'm using openbox

Wittfella · 2011-12-13 01:41:51

@kosava - Try opening your odt file from the console with 'xdg-open your.odt'. Same result? Have a look in '~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list' and see if the correct association exists. Also check the mime-type of the odt files, maybe its not getting that right.

Either of these two commands:

xdg-mime query filetype your.odt

file --mime-type your.odt

If its not detecting the mime type of those files then you can override xdg using a custom action and set the text to 'Open'.

anonymous_user · 2011-12-13 02:49:26

Using qtfm 5.2 from community, I just realized that Rename is missing from the right-click menu.

Wittfella · 2011-12-13 04:14:31

Yep I know...I commented it out when I moved 'Delete' upward and forgot about it. It's fixed now. Sorry to say but I moved 'delete' back to where it was, I didn't like it. Maybe you can put some of your global actions in a submenu to reduce the number in the menu.

qtfm-5.3.beta.tar.gz

Last edited by Wittfella (2011-12-13 04:52:41)

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