qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

anonymous_user · 2011-02-06 17:24:09

@Wittfella - It still happens with 4.5.

tri1976 · 2011-02-06 19:19:48

Wittfella wrote:

I have made it so the target is displayed on the status bar when you click a link. The links are blue.

This doesn't work neither. I'm wondering if you forgot to roll in the changes in v4.5

Wittfella · 2011-02-07 01:46:17

Hey, that's weird, somethings going on, I'm sure I fixed anonymous's problem also, sounds like you guys are not seeing the latest version. I uploaded the new package and tried it on another machine and it worked fine.

Anyway, I uploaded 4.5 again.

Should have a MD5 62cf47755f480aa7b0df4eedbd7305cf

www.qtfm.org/qtfm-4.5.tar.gz

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anonymous_user · 2011-02-07 02:39:19

Ok I manually built 4.5 and its working fine so far; thanks.

karabaja4 · 2011-02-07 07:14:22

Guys if you're using some kind of pacman wrapper it doesn't see changes in md5, only in version, and also it keeps previously built packages in cache.

So make sure you rebuild the package from source on each tarball change manually (makepkg) otherwise you'll just end up reinstalling the same version you already have.

moetunes · 2011-02-07 22:08:20

I have alot of avi, mpeg and flv videos without any file extension on the end and qtfm opens them with mplayer.desktop like I set it up to but shows them as being either text or executable files. Here's a pic of a folder with only vids in it :

I don't know how to go about getting them displayed with the vid icon like those with file extensions do. Tried with clearlooksosx, rodent and tango icon themes and the result is the same.

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moetunes · 2011-02-08 00:10:02

I right clicked in a free area in my home folder and selected properties and a little while later a box popped up telling me the hdd space used and the number of files and folders there were which is great, but it used nearly 200mB of memory to do this and only a reboot would clear that used memory. I redid it and took some before/after pics. You can see the mem used in the middle at the bottom.

You can see it went from 47mB to 233mB to show the properties and I'll have to reboot to clear that used memory.

tri1976 · 2011-02-08 00:19:10

I built 4.5 using the tarball and everything works. I uninstall it and install qtfm-4.5-2 from community and it also works. Something must be wrong with the first package. Thank you.

Wittfella · 2011-02-08 03:53:39

moetunes

The file icons come from the suffix, so that is why you are getting text file/executable on those. Give them a suffix if you want movie icons.

I can't think of why it would consume memory off-hand, all it does is walk the directory structure. Did you check the mem usage of qtfm itself at the time with 'ps aux'? Anyway I'll check it out.

Also I see one of your icons (hidden folder) in the toolbar is borked. What icon theme are you using, I'll check it out also.

moetunes · 2011-02-08 05:55:29

I have 1200+ vids I would have to run file on in a terminal to give them their right extension which is not going to happen - I started to remove the extensions ages ago when I noticed in thunar if I named an avi something.txt it still got the vid icon.
From a fresh reboot I opened qtfm, took a pic, right clicked and selected properties, watched as the memory used kept growing until the properties dialog box popped up, then took another pic. There was nothing else happening and mem use here never goes above 150mB normally(only gets that high with alot of firefox tabs open). Folder properties is not something I would use often just thought it was worth being investigated.
The borked hidden file icon is from the ClearlooksOSX icon set which seems to only have issues in qtfm, nothing I can't live with tho.

Wittfella · 2011-02-08 05:59:35

I'll try to clear up some confusion. When I'm working on the next version I ask if some folks could grab it to test out before it is 'released' and Brad pushes it into [Community]. To do this you have to grab the source tarball from qtfm.org and build it yourself.

To stop confusion with the version number and not knowing which one got pushed into the repository I will now label the latest 'in-progress' version a beta. You can always grab it from qtfm.org and build it yourself if you want to test it out. When its all good I will release it without the beta tag and Brad will know to push in [Community].

Ok, lets try it out

qtfm-4.6.beta.tar.gz - now with zooming

moetunes · 2011-02-08 06:27:01

4.6 beta builds and runs fine and zooming works on the three icon sets I have here, the text doesn't change size tho(not sure if it is meant to...)

Wittfella · 2011-02-08 06:30:12

Thanks moetunes. Forgot to mention, you should delete the thumb cache for the new effects to kick in. [rm ~/.config/qtfm/thumbs.cache]

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moetunes · 2011-02-08 08:30:35

A query from the dark side again. Thumbnails have a white background in qtfm but not in thunar. Here's a pic

I have to say qtfm is quicker at making the thumbnails.

Last edited by moetunes (2011-02-08 08:32:16)

karabaja4 · 2011-02-08 09:39:08

Hey all,

I can confirm the memory problem with properties. Wittfella, I already mentioned it some time ago in an email, remember? There is no way to clear up that used memory, which is extremely weird.

There were some borked icons inside menus too with some themes if I remember correctly.

P.S. I'm writing this from memory, beacuse currently I don't have an access to a computer capable running qtfm

Wittfella · 2011-02-08 14:55:06

I think the memory issue is the system caching stuff for itself. When you look at the memory qtfm hardly changes at all even on a big folder properties.

The same thing happens with a large 'du' command. Restart clean and immediately do a large filesystem scan, like 'du /'. My memory goes up 200+ mb. The same amount as when using folder properties on qtfm. Also the memory does not decrease again once du is finished.

Another reason I think it is caching is that the first time you run a large folder properties, like /usr, it takes maybe 10-15s on my system. If I then close qtfm, open it again and do another properties on /usr its much. much faster, maybe 1-2 sec. Its like it didn't have to physically walk the drive the second time.

tri1976 · 2011-02-09 00:57:18

Back on page 4, fiinix mentioned putting partition free space informaton in the status bar but I did not see your response to it, is it not possible? I'd like to make another request for this feature

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moetunes · 2011-02-09 06:32:55

tri1976 wrote:

Back on page 4, fiinix mentioned putting partition free space informaton in the status bar but I did not see your response to it, is it not possible? I'd like to make another request for this feature

I'd like to request this too it would help me with my pvr nfs mounts so I'd know when I had to delete something to make room. Currently I'm using a script that runs du -hs --apparent-size which is not a hassle - I would prefer to have a quick and light fm then a feature rich one but if adding free space to the status bar doesn't add much overhead it would be appreciated

tri1976 · 2011-02-09 13:53:17

@moetunes If you just want to know how much free space is left, I think using the "df" command is lighter than "du". Somethink like this for example:

df -h|grep sda1|awk '{print $6 " freespace: " $4}'

moetunes · 2011-02-09 17:05:10

@tril976
I don't like how bad at math df is - here's an example

Filesystem                 Size   Used   Avail Use% Mounted on
10.0.0.3:/media/movies     241G  180G   49G  79% /media/movies

things never add up with df...

Last edited by moetunes (2011-02-09 17:06:20)

tri1976 · 2011-02-09 17:56:55

moetunes wrote:

@tril976
I don't like how bad at math df is - here's an example
Filesystem                 Size   Used   Avail Use% Mounted on
10.0.0.3:/media/movies     241G  180G   49G  79% /media/movies
things never add up with df...

That's pretty bad. I never notice that....I have always assumed that it's correct.
Here is an explanation why they don't add up

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tri1976 · 2011-02-13 16:44:17

qtfm v4.5, file with spaces failed to open; it open one word at a time.

anonymous_user · 2011-02-13 16:50:29

@Wittfella - qtfm shows the file/folder name in the status bar for both selected items and mouse-over. For users using double-click mode this seem unnecessary and makes the statusbar busy. I can see it being useful for people with single-click mode though. Perhaps make a tweak so only one method is used at a time?

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Edit: can anyone get qtfm to open mp3 files properly? For me xdg-mime is detecting my mp3s as "application/octet-stream; charset=binary".

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shetland_breeder · 2011-02-14 20:57:34

Since the 4.3->4.4 update I'm stuck with the gnome icon theme even though ~/.gtk-2.0.rc still says Tango and qtfm.conf still says theme=Tango. The currentTheme line always says gnome. If i change it to Tango it gets reset to gnome when I close qtgm (and does nothing while qtfm is open). I'm using XFCE4 4.6 (too many of the panel applets are broken in 4.8)

Pete

anonymous_user · 2011-02-14 22:40:42

@shetland_breeder - try editing the config file while qtfm is closed.

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