qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

Wittfella · 2012-01-02 01:16:50

It certainly is possible, that's how mine sorts now. Do you mean yours is 1, 10, 2, 3...

anonymous_user · 2012-01-02 02:43:46

That is correct.

Circleo · 2012-01-07 04:25:52

This is by far the best lightweight FM I've ever seen, thank you for your continued efforts with this Wittfella.

Wittfella · 2012-01-07 13:14:27

Hey Circleo, thanks much appreciated!

anonymous_user · 2012-01-08 20:12:40

I think I found a bug:

1. Select a file
2. Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab
3. The new tab will have the file name (from step 1)
4. The back/up buttons do not work. Additionally if you click the Home button and then try to press Back, that will also not work.

Grus · 2012-01-12 08:47:03

I just can't get my folder names to be any color other than black. My window background is black, so I basically can't see them, which makes using qtfm unbelievably difficult. I've spent the last hour tweaking every imaginable color via qtconfig, yet it still remains black, does anyone have any idea which setting I'm missing or if this is simply hard-coded? On a previous install, I got it all to work with a black window background and white folder text. Files still have white text, and if I select a folder, the correct Highlight and HighlightedText color shows.

swanson · 2012-01-12 10:16:10

Almost the same problem here; I have a grey background and all invisible files (.files) have grey text color. Hard for old eyes ...

jorpheus · 2012-01-12 22:08:51

Wow, you don't visit the forums for a extended period and you miss cool new developments. I commend you for a job well-done. Onto bugs & features.

I can confirm the following:

1) qtfm /path/to/foo opens /
2) number sorting goes 1, 10, 2 (edit: this occurs everywhere, not just qtfm...I guess it's due to some env variable?)
3) back and up don't work until you enter another directory, haven't tried the Home + Back bit

anonymous_user wrote:

I think I found a bug:
1. Select a file
2. Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab
3. The new tab will have the file name (from step 1)
4. The back/up buttons do not work. Additionally if you click the Home button and then try to press Back, that will also not work.

4) The color of folders problem mentioned above (poster grus) - when I apply the GTK theme, and when I try to change the background to black in any other look. Interestingly, if the GTK theme is any other color, it works fine. I changed this via qtconfig.

Features I'd like to see:
1) horizontal scrolling (using the mouse wheel instead of dragging the scrollbar)
2) dedicated button for list view (instead of clicking on whatever is the current view mode again)
3) selecting a file and opening a tab probably shouldn't result in the new tab having that selected file's name as its title
4) documentation
5) a way to distinguish between files and folders in the favor of files when writing custom actions (you have 'folders' for folders', but there are actions that could only be applied to files...such as viewing them in whatever)
6) tabs on top
7) display sorting criteria in the list mode (like in the detailed mode)
8) multiple shortcuts for the same action
9) clicking on something that isn't the file name shouldn't select the file (defocusing is rather difficult as is...perhaps make it a special action?)

1), 5) and 9) would be my favorites, with 1) being the most important.

Last edited by jorpheus (2012-01-12 23:10:59)

Wittfella · 2012-01-13 13:30:42

Hey people, sorry I am away overseas at the moment and can't upload, but I have fixed the startup path, tab on files and the text color/theme issues. Be back in a couple of days.

Circleo · 2012-01-15 06:14:54

My only suggestion is that when you select a file with a long filename it shows the entire name. For example, "120386-Turqu..." would become "120386-Turquoise.txt" when you select it.
If this is already intended behaviour then it's not working in mine haha.
Really enjoying this simple and light FM.

anonymous_user · 2012-01-15 15:13:51

^ Just FYI, the full filename can be be seen in the status bar.

Circleo · 2012-01-16 01:53:17

That's true, but if you're clicking on something your eyes are already there so it seems like a good feature.

Wittfella · 2012-01-17 04:13:34

Uploaded the fixes if you want to test, particularly the colour/theme text issue.

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anonymous_user · 2012-01-17 06:14:35

Ok I tested the beta and I can confirm that qtfm works with paths now and when you have a file selected, Ctrl+T will no longer open a tab.

BTW I don't remember if I asked this earlier, but why is the order of custom actions in the menu reversed from their order in the Custom actions dialog box?

Kosava · 2012-01-17 17:54:47

I tested too new beta version and i can confirm to path work now corectly.

And i want to again ask, does is possible to add option when i select some file and press F2 button to mark text to the extension.
like this now when i press F2 i get file_name.mp3, but correctly on every other file manager is just file_name

shetland_breeder · 2012-01-18 15:15:22

I've noticed a problem recently on all my machines where Qtfm doesn't update the bookmarks as drives are mounted and unmounted.

I found an old HDD that hadn't been updated since the beginning of December, and by trial and error it seems to be due to the update to the 'filesystem' package which now makes /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts rather than a real file. I guess Qt (and thus Qtfm) no longer sees the change to mtab since the contents change but not the timestamps.

Is there a way of fixing this in Qtfm or do we just have to wait for it to be fixed in Qt?

Pete

Circleo · 2012-01-18 22:12:21

anonymous_user wrote:

why is the order of custom actions in the menu reversed from their order in the Custom actions dialog box?

I can confirm this occurring on my pc as well.

Wittfella · 2012-01-19 01:22:29

@shetland - thanks for the notice, yes it appears to be broken by that mtab change...doh! I remember seeing that update and thinking 'that could be problematic' but was busy at the time and forgot about checking it later. Will have to do it some other way. Does anyone know if Arch is the only one doing this, or is it common practice?

@Kosava - well it's a bit of a pain. I'm not doing anything with the way it renames now, it's just standard Qt widget behavior. I'll have to subclass something and fool around to change that behavior. I'll check it out, it might not be too hard.

I'll look at changing the order of custom actions to match the menu.

Wittfella · 2012-01-22 04:19:09

mtab problem

This turns out to be a bit of an onion! Since mtab was changed to a symlink to /proc/self/mounts we can't just monitor it to detect devices/mounts showing up as qtfm used to. inotify doesn't work on things in /proc.

It seems the only way to do it now is go full blown udev integration, unless someone can think of something simpler. At first I wasn't that happy about introducing a dependency (on udev), but then I had a question - isn't udev basically part of the kernel? ie. if you are running any moderately recent kernel, you have udev, it's not optional. In that case it's not really a dependency.

Anyway, I have it working the udev way to pick up device additions if people can test it out.

PKGBUILD

jorpheus · 2012-01-25 20:26:23

I tried it, and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Am I misunderstanding something? Upon plugging in a USB stick, nothing happens. After mounting it manually, still no changes in QtFM.

anonymous_user · 2012-01-26 00:11:14

Maybe you already removed [that USB stick] from Qtfm's bookmarks so it won't show again. You can check qtfm's conf file to see which bookmarks are hidden.

Wittfella · 2012-01-26 01:56:15

@jorpheus - you are probably correct. Sorry I didn't explain it a bit better. udev only tells you that something has been connected, it does not notify when something is mounted (unless udev does the mounting automatically). So for qtfm to work, your udev has to be set up to 'automount' the device. That way you connect something, udev mounts it somewhere, and then qtfm receives a message, checks for new mounts and bingo, adds a bookmark.

In your case, qtfm receives a message when you connect the device, checks for new mounts but finds none (because the device isn't mounted yet). qtfm doesn't know when you manually mount the device at some later time.

I agree this is not ideal. The mtab thing was much simpler and worked all the time, its a pity that this method has been broken. I don't know of any way to get notified about when something is manually mounted, aside from just constantly watching common dirs like /mnt and /media, but that's not going to catch everyone either.

Circleo · 2012-01-26 20:45:16

Post removed. Issue fixed in beta.

Last edited by Circleo (2012-01-26 21:11:13)

rhiakath · 2012-01-27 11:37:00

Hi there. I've been reading this post, trying to figure out why qtfm does not display properly on my system.

this is my desktop
desktop

my .gtkrc-2.0:

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

gtk-theme-name = "oxygen-gtk"

include "/home/rhiakath/.gtkrc.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT

I've already deleted .config/qtfm, and still nothing. Any idea?

Wittfella · 2012-01-27 11:56:34

Hello rhiakath,

It looks in .gtkrc-2.0 for 'gtk-icon-theme-name'.

Make sure it is set to a theme that resides in '/usr/share/icons'.

Arch Linux

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