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Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

@swanson - Keep this file on hand.  You will need to replace this function in mainwindow.cpp (it's near the bottom) in updates to keep your funky date sorting

swanson_mainwindow.cpp

swanson

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Saved for future use. You're the man! Thanks!

anonymous_user

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Something I noticed: qtfm will not show thumbnails for files with a jpeg extension. jpg works fine though.

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

@anonymous - That's fixed in the new version.

I've just uploaded 5.3.

5.3    14-December-2011
- added new address bar navigation and drop-down auto-completion.
- added 'New tab' to tree context menu.
- added 'Close' context menu to tabs.
- added Chinese translation (zh).
- fixed 'single-click' navigation mode.
- fixed sorting for size & date columns in detail view.
- fixed bug in available space detection when pasting to removable drives.

Best part is the new address bar navigation.  It now has better auto-complete, including win7 style drop-down navigation from anywhere in the path.  You can also click in the path to go straight to that folder (ala breadcrumb style).  Everybody wins!

PKGBUILD

No-one seems to read the README, so some helpful hints:

#####################
Tip & Tricks
#####################

- If you 'Edit filetype' on a folder and set the handler to qtFM you can then 'right-click->Open'
  on a folder to open in a new instance.

- Middle-click folders or bookmarks to open in a new tab. Ctrl+middle-click to open in a new instance.

- Middle-click tabs to close.

- Ctrl+drag&drop will copy instead of move.

- Click anywhere in the address bar path to navigate from there. Ctrl+click or middle-click will go
  immediately to that folder.

- Right-click on the status bar will bring up the 'View' options.  Useful if you have hidden the main menu.

- When you copy things in qtFM it places the path(s) in the selection buffer so you can then middle-click in
  a text editor for example to 'paste as text'.

- You can also use sequential shortcuts like vi or emacs instead of the combination shortcuts (ctrl+x).
  In the shortcuts editor just seperate them with commas. eg. 'a,b,c'

anonymous_user

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

@anonymous - That's fixed in the new version.

If you mean version 5.3 then it doesn't seem so:

Best part is the new address bar navigation.  It now has better auto-complete, including win7 style drop-down navigation from anywhere in the path.  You can also click in the path to go straight to that folder (ala breadcrumb style).  Everybody wins!

If I click on a folder I see the drop down navigation. But how do I go directly to that folder? For example if the address bar has /foo/bar/baz, how do I go to just /foo? Or maybe I am misunderstanding how it works.

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Precisely why I said 'no-one reads the README...' and helpfully posted the hints & tips!

Delete your thumb cache.

anonymous_user

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Ok my bad. Also deleting the cache files in ~/.config/qtfm did not help.

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Oh snap! My bad also...there was a sneaky space next to 'jpeg'.  Fixed it.

maxter

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Qtfm doesn' pickup the icon theme, either trying with the forceTheme option.
Please excuse me i i write here, but i didn't found any other place where to report this bug.

i'm running qtfm 5.3 on ubuntu, installed via the provided .deb package.

i'm running a minimal cd install, with openbox and without a dm.
my .gtkrc-2.0 and settings.ini for gtk3 are written by lxappearance.
both these files have the following row:
gtk-icon-theme-name="Humanity"

as said, setting the forceTheme option doesn't work.
i've tried with the gnome and the Humanity icon theme (that are obviously installed in /usr/share/icons)
i also tried to remove the *.cache files  and the .config/qtfm folder, without results.

is there any other thing i can try to solve the problem or to find any other information useful for debug purpose?

many thanks

maxter

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

partially solved.
i had only the basic gnome-icont-theme package installed.
installing gnome-icon-theme-full solved the problem.
also the tango icon theme works.
it seems there is some problem with the Humanity icon theme.

now the qtfm folder icon follow the icon theme but i can't see any applications icon, only the standard white icon for all the files.

this is the content of my /usr/share/mime folder:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6640 2011-12-21 12:39 aliases
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  20480 2011-12-21 12:39 application
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 audio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12755 2011-12-21 12:39 generic-icons
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21567 2011-12-21 12:39 globs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24043 2011-12-21 12:39 globs2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 2011-12-21 12:39 icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 image
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 inode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21267 2011-12-21 12:39 magic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101824 2011-12-21 12:39 mime.cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 model
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 multipart
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10433 2011-12-21 12:39 subclasses
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 text
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    817 2011-12-21 12:39 treemagic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13415 2011-12-21 12:39 types
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 video
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 x-content
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2011-12-21 12:39 x-epoc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    483 2011-12-21 12:39 XMLnamespaces

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Hello maxter,

Thanks for the report!  It seems you have done everything right, I am a bit stumped why it's not working for you.

All I can think of is what version of Qt are you running.  It needs to be >4.6 something, although I doubt you would be using less than that.

Also you can try and run it from the console and see if it produces any info.

Cheers,
Wittfella

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Ohh..beat me!

Ok, getting somewhere.  Now that the theme is working, maybe try delete the *.cache files again and restart.

Last edited by Wittfella (2011-12-22 11:03:09)

maxter

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Hello  Wittfella.

deleting the *.cache files make the icon gnome theme to appear when selecting the humanity icon theme (humanity inherit from gnome and hicolor icon themes).
before the deletion, selecting the Humanity theme shown the default blue qtfm theme.

may be that the cause of the problem is that the humanity theme is only in svg format?

anyway, file icon associations is now working

i noted also that the *.desktop files don't show the associated icon; if this is not a bug, i will put this feature in my wishlist for the next release of qtfm

Many thanks for your grat work Wittfella, qtfm is a really interesting project

Last edited by maxter (2011-12-22 11:38:47)

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Great, glad its working!  Sounds like your Humanity icons are not complete.  You are correct, it just drops back down through inherited themes if it can't find the correct 'png' icon.

It's not a bug, it doesn't do anything special with desktop files.  What do you actually use them for, I never saw the point.

Cavedude

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

I just installed your file manager. I'm very impressed especially for a 0.6 MB install size. It's definitely a keeper. Thanks.

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Thanks Cavedude, much appreciated!

maxter

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Great, glad its working!  Sounds like your Humanity icons are not complete.  You are correct, it just drops back down through inherited themes if it can't find the correct 'png' icon.

It's not a bug, it doesn't do anything special with desktop files.  What do you actually use them for, I never saw the point.

The ubuntu package of humanity icon theme is made only of svg icons (and a few xpm)

about desktop files... it should be nice if qtfm could show the icon an launch the executable associated with the desktop file, when double clicked. for sure it is not a fundamental feature, but using openbox, that doesn't manage desktop icons, could be interesting to have some .desktop file on the Desktop folder

GimmeeSpam

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Launching qtfm with a startup path argument no longer works in 5.3.  This used to work in 5.0.

Example:  If I enter the following command line into a terminal:
    $ qtfm /home/jmc/
qtfm opens, but the initial directory is "/" rather than "/home/jmc/"

I'm running Arch Linux with OpenBox.

Thanks again for creating an awesome file manager.  I use it all the time.

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Hmmm...I just checked it on one of my machines and it works fine, but my other one it is broken as you say.  I realised that my broken machine is up to date with 4.8, while the other is still 4.7.  I'll have to check it out, thanks for the report.

karabaja4

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

I can confirm that running "qtfm /path/to/wherever" opens root directory instead of argument path in qtfm 5.3.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2011-12-24 02:14:41)

Segaja

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Hi, since the last update I have the problem, that everytime I start qtfm it shows the root folder and not my home folder or what ever I pass after the command.

The second problem I have is that the bookmarks list also contains /sys and /run which I don't wan there. This has been a while now.

I'm running archlinux.

Best regards
Segaja

Wittfella

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Yes same problem as above.  If you start it with no arguments it should start in your home.  Just remove any 'auto' bookmarks and they won't come back.

Segaja

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Thanks, that helped.

tri1976

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

I can confirm that running "qtfm /path/to/wherever" opens root directory instead of argument path in qtfm 5.3.

I can also confirm this bug.

anonymous_user

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Re: qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

@Wittfella - Would it be possible for qtFM to have natural number sorting? e.g. 1, 2, ..., 9, 10, etc.