qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

fiinix · 2010-09-23 18:42:37

Experience: I just copied a folder with a lot of subfolders and files. Almost all of the time the progress bar of the copy dialogue was at about 95% (+-3%).

Feature request/improvement: How about on move and copy qtfm 1. checks size of everything, 2. copies file by file and before or after each file checks how much is still to go and calculates the progress from that? Maybe "x MB of y MB copied" and maybe also "x of y files copied"? Progress bar/percentage should show not number of files but total size transfered, imho. What do you think?

tzervo · 2010-09-24 07:24:42

I have been experimeting with setting up a guest account that is friendly to someone with no experience in Linux with the least compromises to my setup and qtfm is the perfect file manager for the job. Congratulations for this fine little app. I have only a (minor?) feature request. I was considering using udevs for the mounting and trash-cli for handling a trash folder. Problem is, I have no way of binding the del key to use trash-cli instead of your delete, right? (some using it will expect to press delete and have it move to trash, not right-clicking to select the custom action). Is it possible to implement an option to configure the del key (or the delete action using it altogether)?

Last edited by tzervo (2010-09-24 07:33:17)

anonymous_user · 2010-09-25 04:44:24

Just something minor, but when I run desktop-file-validate against qtfm.desktop I get these messages:

qtfm.desktop: warning: value "qtfm.png" for key "Icon" in group "Desktop Entry" is an icon name with an extension, but there should be no extension as described in the Icon Theme Specification if the value is not an absolute path
qtfm.desktop: warning: value "System;FileTools;FileManager;Application;Utility;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a deprecated value "Application"

fiinix · 2010-09-26 01:28:45

Experience: The last few weeks I regularly came to a situation where I had multiple instances of qtFM open at the same time. But to know which folders were open, I had to click on each task icon (having them open but in background or minimized for a while, it's sometimes hard to remember such a subsidiary fact, which then becomes interesting again).

I asked about it before, but here a more concrete idea:
Feature request: It would be nice to be able to see by the window title which folder is currently opened. How about to be able in qtfm.conf to set something like

window_title=%F - %n %v

where options could be:
%F = current folder with complete path,
%f = current folder without complete path,
%n = program name,
%v = program version,
%u = user name,
...
The default setting (without that line in qtfm.conf) would be like it is now.

What do you think about that Wittfella? Shouldn't be hard to implement. Anyone else interested in such a feature, or am I the only one? (Please guys, help me out here )

anonymous_user · 2010-09-27 06:15:34

May you add a refresh button or action to qtfm? Sometimes when I copy/move a file, the size will be displayed as 0 and the only way I know to fix it is by closing and reopening qtfm.

fiinix · 2010-09-27 10:28:33

anonymous_user wrote:

Sometimes when I copy/move a file, the size will be displayed as 0 and the only way I know to fix it is by closing and reopening qtfm.

A few days ago I downloaded a file, looked it up in one auf my folders and there it already was - but with a different size. So I copied it in and the file suddenly had the same size. Turns out while downloading qtfm didn't refresh the file size. I had already forgotten this...

I agree, a refresh button would really be nice!

karabaja4 · 2010-09-28 18:46:34

anonymous_user wrote:

May you add a refresh button or action to qtfm? Sometimes when I copy/move a file, the size will be displayed as 0 and the only way I know to fix it is by closing and reopening qtfm.

Seconded.

P.S. How about a 'Back' hotkey on backspace button?

drcouzelis · 2010-09-29 02:39:40

Thank you for your contribution.

Since there has been some talk in this forum about mounting devices, I thought I'd mention a nice little program I recently started using called udiskie. It automatically mounts devices and allows you to easily unmount them, so you can choose a file manager independent of mount features.

fiinix · 2010-09-29 12:34:16

I use a udev rule to automatically mount devices/partitions and a Custom action in qtfm to unmount as user (with sudo). So no need for udiskie here. But it's nice to know that there is a slightly easier way to set this up.

Offtopic wrote:

I for myself would like a tray app that shows me the mounted partitions and allows me to unmount them.

anonymous_user · 2010-09-29 13:42:32

fiinix wrote:

Offtopic wrote:
I for myself would like a tray app that shows me the mounted partitions and allows me to unmount them.

Something like traydevice or ejecter?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32005

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20493

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-09-29 13:44:59)

GogglesGuy · 2010-09-29 14:42:33

It doesn't feel fast and light. It's consuming on average between 10%-15% cpu...

anonymous_user · 2010-09-29 15:46:16

@GogglesGuy - is that CPU usage when qtfm is just open and idling, or when doing something?

GogglesGuy · 2010-09-29 16:08:56

anonymous_user wrote:

@GogglesGuy - is that CPU usage when qtfm is just open and idling, or when doing something?

First time I started it and it was just open and idling. Now that I started it again, I don't see it anymore...

panthe0n · 2010-09-30 11:10:02

drcouzelis wrote:

Thank you for your contribution.
Since there has been some talk in this forum about mounting devices, I thought I'd mention a nice little program I recently started using called udiskie. It automatically mounts devices and allows you to easily unmount them, so you can choose a file manager independent of mount features.

Does this also mount NTFS-formatted devices? I have a 1TB external that I haven't got around to figuring out how to mount yet. If your little program does the job then I will be thrilled.

karabaja4 · 2010-09-30 14:32:33

Guys, just keybind udisks, it mounts anything nowdays without hal. Something like: udisks --mount /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e...}

fiinix · 2010-09-30 15:43:14

karabaja4 wrote:

Guys, just keybind udisks, it mounts anything nowdays without hal. Something like: udisks --mount /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e...}

You don't even need udisks. A udev-rule (automount to /media/nameofdevice), sudo-settings (user can umount) and qtfm (custom action - like keybind i guess) is enough. Lets see how far i come with the task bar utils - thanks for that, anonymous_user - could have tried that earlier

anonymous_user · 2010-10-01 02:19:11

fiinix wrote:

sudo-settings (user can umount)

Do you mean edit the sudoers file so you can umount without password? I use the udev rules and I despise that I cannot unmount my disk as user.

fiinix · 2010-10-01 10:07:57

yeah, you only have to add the line

fiinix  computersname=NOPASSWD:/bin/umount

karabaja4 · 2010-10-03 19:13:50

Major issue!!! Deleting folder symlink also deletes stuff in symlinked folder! Reproduce like this:

1) Make a folder:
~/first/second/

2) Put few files in "second"

3) Make symlink to first folder:
ln -s first/ mysymlink/

4) delete "mysymlink/" from qtfm - all files from "first/" and it's subdirectories dissapear (restart qtfm to see this)! And also, I'm unable to remove the symlink or enter the folder symlink points to until I restart qtfm and delete that folder, then I can remove the (invalid) symlink from shell.

This does not happen with "rm -r" on symlinked folder.

I just lost 200gb of data because of this

.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2010-10-03 19:17:13)

anonymous_user · 2010-10-03 19:57:39

Ok I can confirm the issue with symlinked folders.

bug · 2010-10-05 13:43:08

Seems that if I right click on the bookmarks area when it's empty, I get segmentation fault.
Tabs would be nice.

Other than that, it seems like it might be something.

Last edited by bug (2010-10-05 13:43:51)

Kosava · 2010-10-05 14:43:10

One little sugestion about renaming file, when i select file and press F2 button it apear to select all text with extension like this ubuntu-10.10-rc-desktop-i386.iso but on dolphin,pcmanfm,thunar selection is only text, not extension like this
ubuntu-10.10-rc-desktop-i386.iso it would be usefull to put rename option like this.

thanks.

Last edited by Kosava (2010-10-05 14:55:43)

tzervo · 2010-10-05 18:57:23

The extension is not the Linux-y way of identifying the file type, but rather its content/mime type (although it is common to use extensions in Linux as well) so I guess renaming the whole file makes more sense to me... it is just an opinion/personal preference though.

fiinix · 2010-10-05 22:11:00

I would see it from a more practical point: the extension is the fastest way to identify a files type for a user (I for example have a lot of files like specialname.odt and specialname.pdf). So extensions are pretty useful for everyday stuff. Thats just the situation. We have them and we want them.

Now the next step: if you rename a file, chances are very good that you wanna keep the extension and only wanna change the (rest of the) name. Therefore it would be nice if only the name was marked for renaming. You could still change the whole name.ext by holding shift and pressing the end button (by way of comparison: if you only wanna change the name without its extension, you have to hold ctrl+shift and have to press the left arrow button two times)...

Long story short: I like your suggestion Kosava

Edit: corrected "shit" to "shift" - sorry for that one

Last edited by fiinix (2010-10-12 21:35:42)

Kosava · 2010-10-05 23:58:54

It is very practical here is one example:
i have some .avi file which is name movie.avi and i have some subtitle file which is name subtitle.srt, for quick renaming i need to press F2 on movie.avi (i need extension dont want to change) and to copy movie to rename subtitle.srt into movie.srt

Final result is:
movie.avi
movie.srt

This is important because players autoload subtitle who have same name, this is little funny example but if someone work with alot files it can short time much.

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