qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

anonymous_user · 2010-10-13 23:04:16

Has anyone had qtfm paste files multiple times?

I can reproduce this problem but with very particular steps. Also as far as I tested, it only happens when cutting and pasting and not copy and pasting.

karabaja4 · 2010-10-14 00:13:06

Bumping important (IMHO) bugs/issues:

- bug deleting folder symlink, files in folder also get deleted (critical, users may lose important data!)
- filesize stuck at 0 in some cases, fix is needed or maybe a refresh button?
- progress bar when copying alot of files is usually incorrect, always around 90%.
- the post above with copy and paste issues, althrough I haven't experienced it. anonymous_user, please write the reproduce steps EDIT: confirmed, check post #336.
- segfault when right-clicking empty bookmarks area (also not confirmed). EDIT: confirmed, post #330.

Anything I forgot?

Last edited by karabaja4 (2010-10-28 01:29:50)

anonymous_user · 2010-10-14 00:26:38

1. I downloaded Process Hacker to my desktop: http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

2. I extracted the archive using atool.

3. I go into the /processhacker-2.7-bin/plugins/x86/ folder and cut all the files and then paste them into /processhacker-2.7-bin/plugins/

4. I select the x86 and x64 folder and delete them.

5. I cut the /processhacker-2.7-bin/plugins/ folder and paste it into /processhacker-2.7-bin/x86/.

6. I then go into the /processhacker-2.7-bin/x86/ folder and cut everything there (should be one folder and three files).

7. I go into a folder on my external NTFS drive and paste and voila:

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-10-14 00:27:22)

Wittfella · 2010-10-14 01:28:29

karabaja4 wrote:

Bumping important (IMHO) bugs/issues:
- bug deleting folder symlink, files in folder also get deleted (critical, users may lose important data!)
- filesize stuck at 0 in some cases, fix is needed or maybe a refresh button?
- progress bar when copying alot of files is usually incorrect, always around 90%.
- the post above with copy and paste issues, althrough I haven't experienced it. anonymous_user, please write the reproduce steps
- segfault when right-clicking empty bookmarks area (also not confirmed).
Anything I forgot?

Sorry for the lack of response lately people, I have been overseas and busy of late. I will try and find some time to fix the issues above, particularly the symlink delete problem.

I'm not sure about the refresh thing, I think it is a problem in Qt. There are several functions like 'submit', 'reset' in the class that should do what we want but I experimented with them and they don't appear to do anything. I have not had a chance to look at the changes in Qt4.7 yet, maybe these functions have been updated and work now, I have to check.

Cheers,
Witty

bdjnk · 2010-10-15 19:31:16

karabaja4 wrote:

- segfault when right-clicking empty bookmarks area (also not confirmed).

I can confirm this happens by me. It also occurs when right clicking in the blank area under existing bookmarks if one of the bookmarks has not yet been selected nor given focus.

karabaja4 · 2010-10-17 17:26:50

One more possible bug: in folders that end with "!" (exclamation mark), qtfm sometimes acts funny - 1) doesn't refresh deleted files (they're deleted but still show inside a folder) 2) when pasting a file after cut action, file doesn't appear until I restart qtfm etc... I was unable to exactly reproduce this, sometimes it happens, other times it works fine.. weird.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2010-10-17 18:00:05)

toorlv · 2010-10-18 10:45:06

karabaja4 wrote:

One more possible bug: in folders that end with "!" (exclamation mark), qtfm sometimes acts funny - 1) doesn't refresh deleted files (they're deleted but still show inside a folder) 2) when pasting a file after cut action, file doesn't appear until I restart qtfm etc... I was unable to exactly reproduce this, sometimes it happens, other times it works fine.. weird.

offtopic:
can you share conky configs?

karabaja4 · 2010-10-18 21:00:31

@troolv: Check the screenshots thread. Please don't hijack other people threads like this, it's very rude.

Btw, Wittfella, I was thinking about something. Why implement a delete function at all, why not just let user create custom action for delete with rm command? For example: rm -rf %f, or if you feel confident in your clicking skills: sudo rm -rf %f

I guess it would be too dangerous, because of no confirmation for folders

.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2010-10-18 22:47:35)

fiinix · 2010-10-18 22:24:32

Wow, I like that idea. People who want a message to pop up could use zenity and we could publish an example code here... The important advantage: some people might not want a message to pop up or might want to show it under special circumstances.

Or how about an option in qtfm.conf if that delete-button should be shown/hidden? By default it's shown, so beginners wouldn't have any problems.

anonymous_user · 2010-10-21 04:27:29

Something I noticed: qtfm doesn't check ~/.local/share/applications/ for desktop files (for Edit Filetype).

karabaja4 · 2010-10-28 01:22:25

@anonymous_user, Wittfella:

I figured out the anonymous_user's bug on post #328. When having multiple files, and cutting (not copying!) them, then pasting them in the folder where files with same filenames already exist, multiple copies appear. For example, for three files:

bla1.txt
bla2.txt
bla3.txt

when cutting and pasting files over those with same filename these appear:

Copy (1) of bla1.txt
Copy (1) of bla2.txt
Copy (1) of bla3.txt
Copy (2) of bla2.txt
Copy (2) of bla3.txt
Copy (3) of bla3.txt

copies 2 and 3 shouldn't be here.

Also, this overwriting solution is not great. The user should be asked if he wants to overwrite the files, not just create copies with "Copy of ..." filename... Related bug: when dragging files into the folder where files with same filename already exist, nothing happenes.

EDIT: updated bugs list in post #327.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2010-10-28 01:29:11)

fiinix · 2010-11-03 22:07:51

hi wittfella, hi guys,

i found another bug: if you delete all data from an usb drive, it disappears as a mounted device from the bookmarks view. adding a file then and restarting qtfm solves this. a little bit annoying, because i don't always know, where the drive mounted and where to copy the new files then...

how about the other bugs? still got a lot to do? qtfm has become my normal arch experience. just awesome.

anonymous_user · 2010-11-06 18:42:19

Just a minor request but could qtfm grab an icon from the user's theme for the terminal icon? "terminal" would be a good choice for an icon.

fiinix · 2010-11-06 19:51:07

I would like that too.

anonymous_user · 2010-11-07 20:33:40

If I try opening multiple files, only the one which I right-click on will actually open. If I open multiple video files, only one will be in GNOME-MPlayer's playlist. If they're text files, only one will be opened in Geany.

fiinix · 2010-11-07 20:58:45

While holding ctrl you can use the arrow buttons on the keyboard to navigate through files without selecting them. (Selecting happens by pressing space.) I just found out that if you press the enter button, not the selected file(s) will be tried to open, but the one where you navigated to. That seems to be the reason, why only one file can be opened at the same time: because it's always the one where you navigated to (which happens automatically at clicking). Now I feel a little bit smart 8)

slot · 2010-11-16 21:30:17

Just found this - cool filemanager - going to use it - looking forward to the cut & paste issues are ironed out.

anonymous_user · 2010-11-20 02:01:32

Would it be possible to have the back button be disabled/shaded when there is no folder to back to?

Wittfella · 2010-11-30 06:29:01

Hello folks!

I finally have some time so I'm back into it. I have fixed a couple things from the bugs/issues list.

CHANGELOG wrote:

3.2 30-November-2010
- terminal icon now taken from current theme.
- modified auto bookmarks and detection of mounted drives.
- fixed bug where deleting a symlink would also delete target.
- fixed crash when right-clicking on empty bookmarks window.

I need to go back through the posts and remind myself of some of the other stuff.

Cheers,
Wittfella

bdjnk · 2010-11-30 08:23:34

Hey Wittfella, welcome back!

An interesting thing I just noticed testing the latest from AUR is that arranging the file frame in detail view also arranges the folders in the tree frame. Now when arranging by name or date this behaves approximately as expected, but when arranging by type, size, or owner, the folder arrangement seems nonsensical (though it is the same for each).

Speaking of view settings, the icon view and detail view can be enabled at the same time, even though the functionality is currently contradictory.

Last view niggle. I noticed that thumbnails are only visible in icon view, unless detail view is selected while in icon view.. In all other cases there are no thumbnails even when show thumbs is enabled.

Sorry for all this at once, it's been on my mind for a week or so.

anonymous_user · 2010-11-30 16:41:20

Thanks for the update Wittfella. Also I have a couple of questions:

Is it possible to get rid of the new bookmarks for mounted drives. On my computer, this update adds the /boot and /home partitions which I don't care about seeing.

Secondly is it just me or does qtfm seem slow sometimes when starting and closing, and changing folders?

bdjnk · 2010-11-30 16:48:25

anonymous_user wrote:

Secondly is it just me or does qtfm seem slow sometimes when starting and closing, and changing folders?

No, it's not just you. I notice mainly that shutdown has this two to three second delay (on my little netbook, but still). But startup is a bit slow feeling as well, and switching folders has this very slight delay that I usually don't even notice.

fiinix · 2010-11-30 23:08:27

Thanks for the update! Nice to have you back

anonymous_user wrote:

Is it possible to get rid of the new bookmarks for mounted drives. On my computer, this update adds the /boot and /home partitions which I don't care about seeing.

I would like that too. Since 3.2 I additionally have "/" and "/var/lib/pacman". And I wouldn't want them. So now what I love most to suggest: how about an option? Speed is fine here (also netbook) ... I think ... Although it is lightweight enough that it should be even faster... I don't know ... Shading out the back arrow is a nice idea, the same would be nice for the up arrow (when in folder "/").

I wouldn't wanna think back to the times without qtfm. It's excellent just how it is. Looking forward to even further improvement anyway

Wittfella · 2010-12-01 03:39:46

Hello,

I just quickly updated it so now if you 'remove' an autobookmark it won't come back. I didn't bump the version, so grab 3.2 again if you already have it.

Regarding the slight delays, it is most likely to do with the thumb cache. The thumb cache is only loaded when it is first required, so the first time you navigate to a folder with images it loads the cache from disk. This is probably the small delay experienced when going into some folders. Also thumbs are only loaded if you are in 'icon' view and 'show thumbs' is checked (the small thumbs showing in detail view that bdjnk mentioned above is unintended, I haven't looked into this yet).

Hence if your not in icon view, or you never navigate to some images the cache will never load. If the cache changes during a session (ie. you viewed some new images) it is written out on close, so that is probably the small delay when exiting sometimes. If the cache hasn't changed it doesn't bother.

So a tip for getting the the fastest startup time is to not have any images in your startup directory (usually home dir). If there is an image in that initial directory, it has to load the cache straight away, causing a delay.

If you are experiencing delays, first check the size of your thumb cache, maybe it has become quite large. You can try turning off 'show thumbs', or delete the cache file and see if that improves things.

karabaja4 · 2010-12-01 04:35:26

Hi Wittfella, welcome back!

I'll just do a quick list of bugs (and/or feature requests) I'm aware of (my observations, and older posts):

1)

karabaja4 wrote:

A suggestion: it would be nice if hidden folders would be accessible through address bar without the need to enable the hidden files option. For example, I'd like to be able to browse through /home/user/.wine from time to time, but to do it I must enable hidden files which I don't usually have enabled because of too many dot-folders. So, what I thought is that I could browse through this folder by typing its exact address without it (or any other hidden folder) be displayed in the folder tree.

* Also, some hidden folders get stuck when I enable, select few hidden folders, and then disable Hidden view (in icon view only selected ones get stuck, in details view even more of them).

2)

fiinix wrote:

Bug: if I open a folder where a file is just being downloaded, the filesize is correctly showing something lower than the final filesize. But it doesn't change anymore. Even if the file (seconds or minutes later) has finished downloading and I leave the folder showing it and then go back in, qtfm still shows the filesize it showed first. Changing view mode doesn't help either. qtfm has to be closed and reopened.

* This one happenes in alot of cases (like extracting a file etc.). Filesize just gets stuck at 0 or some random (incorrect) value. If it's not solvable (QT related), maybe implement a refresh button?

3)

fiinix wrote:

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?

4)

karabaja4 wrote:

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

5)

Kosava wrote:

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.

6)

karabaja4 wrote:

@anonymous_user, Wittfella:
I figured out the anonymous_user's bug on post #328. When having multiple files, and cutting (not copying!) them, then pasting them in the folder where files with same filenames already exist, multiple copies appear. For example, for three files:
bla1.txt
bla2.txt
bla3.txt
when cutting and pasting files over those with same filename these appear:
Copy (1) of bla1.txt
Copy (1) of bla2.txt
Copy (1) of bla3.txt
Copy (2) of bla2.txt
Copy (2) of bla3.txt
Copy (3) of bla3.txt
copies 2 and 3 shouldn't be here.
Also, this overwriting solution is not great. The user should be asked if he wants to overwrite the files, not just create copies with "Copy of ..." filename...

7)

karabaja4 wrote:

Related bug to 6): when dragging files into the folder where files with same filename already exist, nothing happenes.

8)

anonymous_user wrote:

Would it be possible to have the back button be disabled/shaded when there is no folder to back to?

9) Kinda related to these delays when opening folders. Wittfella, I mentioned this before but you didn't comment on it. When qtfm is in details view (when in list or icon view things work fine), and when starting qtfm, folders and files in both tree views are noticeably reordered (enough to confuse your eyes on file position), especially during heavy I/O activity. Same thing happens when entering folder with alot of (not thumbnailed) files, only it's not so noticeable like on startup. So, I was wondering is this some kind of QT bug, and if not is it possible to fix it?

Thanks for all your work, and once again welcome back!

Last edited by karabaja4 (2010-12-01 04:59:46)

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#326 2010-10-13 23:04:16

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#327 2010-10-14 00:13:06

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#329 2010-10-14 01:28:29

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