qtFM - Small, fast, light Qt filemanager

shetland_breeder · 2011-02-15 00:04:45

anonymous_user wrote:

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

Tried that. currentTheme gets set back to gnome when qtfm starts.

Pete

shetland_breeder · 2011-02-15 16:34:42

Seems to be related to running on XFCE4 4.6

I upgraded qtfm to 4.5 on another machine and got the same problem with it using gnome theme. Then did a system upgrade to pull in XFCE 4.8 and qtfm now uses the Tango theme as specified in qtfm.conf.

Possible this may affect other distros.

Pete

Kosava · 2011-02-16 22:12:27

Does is possible to add option for changing folder icons in the new version of qtfm, i suggest to put that option in properties of folder that would be very handy, and it will be good for decorating and organizing folder icons...

Wittfella · 2011-02-17 08:04:11

tri1976 wrote:

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

I haven't touched that part recently. Have you updated xdg-open or something related to that lately? Files with spaces open fine here.

anonymous wrote:

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 agree it is a bit busy, but it is what people wanted If I recall it is not so much to do with single/double clicking, it was more about the views. In icon view long names are truncated alot, so people wanted to 'hover' and see the whole name.

shetland_breeder wrote:

qtfm.conf still says theme=Tango

That must be a leftover from an earlier version. At some point I changed the setting to 'currentTheme' so that is the one that should change.

I have made some updates if you want to check it out. Played with the thumbnails/zooming stuff a bit more (delete your thumbs.cache) and also changed the folder properties dialog. qtfm-4.6.beta.tar.gz

anonymous_user · 2011-02-17 14:44:59

Wittfella wrote:

I agree it is a bit busy, but it is what people wanted If I recall it is not so much to do with single/double clicking, it was more about the views. In icon view long names are truncated alot, so people wanted to 'hover' and see the whole name.

I know the reason but its redundant to have two different but separate ways of showing a file/folder name. For example:

Segaja · 2011-02-20 08:26:26

Hi,

I don't know if this was asked before, but it would be nice to have some ETA time when copying files.

Best regards
Segaja

karabaja4 · 2011-02-20 21:52:32

Segaja wrote:

Hi,
I don't know if this was asked before, but it would be nice to have some ETA time when copying files.
Best regards
Segaja

~~It's your lucky day, I did some hacking to fix exactly this:~~

removed links: merged in qtfm 4.6.

Enjoy!

Last edited by karabaja4 (2011-02-22 22:46:59)

anonymous_user · 2011-02-21 21:53:04

Is it on purpose that the folder properties also shows the sizes and space for all mounted locations? Its pretty rare that I want to know both the size of a folder AND the size of my home or external drive or something.

BTW why are the shortcuts for zooming in (one key) different than those for zooming out (two keys)?

Last edited by anonymous_user (2011-02-21 21:55:37)

Wittfella · 2011-02-22 01:40:03

anonymous_user wrote:

BTW why are the shortcuts for zooming in (one key) different than those for zooming out (two keys)?

I don't understand, what are your shortcuts you have set? They default to "Ctrl++" and "Ctrl+-".

anonymous_user · 2011-02-22 01:43:43

With a clean config file, I see the shortcuts as + and Ctrl+-:

P.S. Ctrl-+ doesn't increase the size either.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2011-02-22 01:45:25)

Wittfella · 2011-02-22 01:49:29

Oh, thanks anonymous, I just checked the code, there is a typo. The default was set to "crtl++", misspelled 'ctrl'. Will fix now. Cheers.

anonymous_user · 2011-02-22 02:13:47

anonymous_user wrote:

Edit: another thing, because theres no padding around thumbnails, all the filename may not be aligned:
http://omploader.org/vNTRlOQ/screenshot-1280761730.png

I still experience this bug. Heres an example: one folder has the default name and the other is "superdooperlong name":

Wittfella · 2011-02-22 02:22:12

Its a Qt thing, I don't know why it sometime has different alignment with different labels.

fiinix · 2011-02-22 09:44:24

anonymous_user wrote:

Wittfella wrote:
I agree it is a bit busy, but it is what people wanted If I recall it is not so much to do with single/double clicking, it was more about the views. In icon view long names are truncated alot, so people wanted to 'hover' and see the whole name.
I know the reason but its redundant to have two different but separate ways of showing a file/folder name. For example:
http://thumbnails38.imagebam.com/11991/2111ad119903608.jpg

I am using the one-click-method and really like how the hover information works. Why again is there more information than the hovered one? Who needs to remember the name of the one file/folder s_he clicked on? Sum of size and number of marked files would be enough imo. Would it?

Edit: Took back a suggestion.

Last edited by fiinix (2011-02-22 09:53:51)

Wittfella · 2011-02-22 11:18:43

Dude I just went back through all 23 pages to find the discussion about this and guess what! It was YOU who wanted to see the selected file info ASWELL as the hover info

Page 11, post #260

fiinix wrote:

About truncated filenames: how about if no file is selected hovering over a file shows its whole name (and other information) in the status bar, whereas if a file is selected (or multiple) while hovering a file/folder: always show its information in the status bar. While not hovering a file/folder: show the information of the selected files/folders. How about that? Something like that would be nice because if you have multiple files/folders beginning with the same string and then they are truncated, and you want to select multiple files/folders, there is now way for you to find out which ones are which (for example out of blablablablablablablablabla_01 blablablablablablablablabla_02 blablablablablablablablabla_03 ... blablablablablablablablabla_77 etc. you want to select 33, 44 and 55. Or another example: the Tree view in my screenshot below). What you would need, if the important part of that file's name is cut off, is a way too see which is which. In Detail view you one has to resize the Name column. In Tree view and Icon view there is no way to do it.

I don't care either way, I ignore the hover updates. So you want the hover to replace the selected info?

Last edited by Wittfella (2011-02-22 11:35:41)

fiinix · 2011-02-22 14:27:44

Hey, sorry, I didn't wanna make an arbitrary impression here. To be honest I had difficulties to understand on my suggestion #260 in detail, but the only thing I ever wanted to do is make suggestions, learn about other suggestions and try to help bringing those together. I don't wanna sound like: "I want xy, do that please" because I don't always know what you other guys would want. Thats what my "how about" is about

Thanks for quoting my post at #260. On post #267 (just after seeing the result) I also hinted at the following:

fiinix wrote:

Thanks for the hover thing, this solves some problems for me. But one critical situation remains: if I select one file/folder that has a long name and then hover above a truncated file/folder, then I still can't see the whole filename/foldername in the status bar. The hover information hides behind the selected information. But you normally know what you selected. What you might wanna know in that situation is the hover information. If 2 or more files/folders are selected, there is enough room for hover information...

So now suggesting to give up the filename of one selected file in the status bar doesn't seem inconsistent to me. Since we neither see a static filename when no file is selected, nor when multiple files are selected, I think my suggestion would be to get rid of it. I got that idea after you implemented the hover thing.

Since I'm not a native speaker I hope I can make myself understandable. I am greatful for each and every minute you put into qtfm and my opinions of what nice features might be, are evolving with your software.

Wittfella · 2011-02-23 08:39:00

Hey fiinix,

No problem man, it's cool, I was just feigning dramatic exasperation. When I went back through the posts I thought "Hang on...I did it for you! Why do you hate me...aarrrggghh"

I played with it today and changed the way hover and selection updates work, check it out and see if you think it's better/worse/ridiculous etc.

Brad already pushed 4.6, so it will have to go in the next release, but you can grab the beta to test qtfm-4.7.beta.tar.gz

Cheers,
Witty

tri1976 · 2011-02-23 13:13:08

@wittfella, is there anyway you can throw in partition free space informaton in the status bar (post #542)? Thanks.

karabaja4 · 2011-02-23 13:17:28

tri1976 wrote:

@wittfella, is there anyway you can throw in partition free space informaton in the status bar (post #542)? Thanks.

I don't think it's easily done. Free space comes from parsing df command (there's no way to get free space from QT), and putting that in statusbar would mean running df quite a bit...

P.S. Wittfella, please check your email...

Cheers!

tri1976 · 2011-02-23 13:24:25

karabaja4 wrote:

I don't think it's easily done. Free space comes from parsing df command (there's no way to get free space from QT), and putting that in statusbar would mean running df quite a bit...

That's fine...I was just wondering if this can be easily done (since it's a feature in most filemanager). I can show partition free space using a script and assign it to a shortcut.

Wittfella · 2011-02-23 13:58:58

Thats correct, I don't want to put it in the status bar because running/parsing df all the time gets expensive. I put it in the properties dialog as a compromise.

Nihathrael · 2011-02-23 14:11:26

Maybe you can use linux syscalls directly:
http://linux.die.net/man/2/statvfs

I have never worked with them, but it looks promising.

Segaja · 2011-02-23 21:02:19

karabaja4 wrote:

Segaja wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if this was asked before, but it would be nice to have some ETA time when copying files.
Best regards
Segaja
~~It's your lucky day, I did some hacking to fix exactly this:~~
removed links: merged in qtfm 4.6.
Enjoy!

Thanks a lot. This is great work.

And thanks to Wittfella for qtfm in general (great file manager) and for merging this stuff.

Wittfella · 2011-02-24 01:10:49

Nihathrael wrote:

Maybe you can use linux syscalls directly:
http://linux.die.net/man/2/statvfs
I have never worked with them, but it looks promising.

Hey Nihathrael, thanks for that, I did not know about it. I just quickly tried it and it works a treat. I will play around with it some.

Last edited by Wittfella (2011-02-24 01:11:22)

Wittfella · 2011-02-24 04:57:08

I made some more changes, has anyone tried the beta? Maybe your not bothering because you think grabbing the source and building yourself is complicated, but its really easy.

Just make a 'qtfm' folder somewhere and stick the PKGBUILD below in it. Then whenever you want to grab the latest just open a console in that folder and type

makepkg -g

This will download and give you a MD5 string. Open the PKGBUILD and replace the MD5 with the new one and save/close. Then just

makepkg

Thats it! You just install it with 'pacman -U qtfm-TAB-TAB...'

After your done, delete everything else in the qtfm folder and leave the PKGBUILD and your ready to go again next time.

PKGBUILD wrote:

# Contributor: Wittfella <wittfella@qtfm.com>
pkgname=qtfm
pkgver=4.7.beta
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A lightweight file manager"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.qtfm.org"
license=('GPL')
depends=('qt')
source=(http://www.qtfm.org/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('c86cfe3e8ba85964cb024985286e734d')
build() {
cd "$startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver"
qmake || return 1
make || return 1
install -Dm 755 ${startdir}/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/qtfm ${startdir}/pkg/usr/bin/qtfm
install -Dm 644 ${startdir}/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/qtfm.desktop ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/applications/qtfm.desktop
install -Dm 644 ${startdir}/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/images/qtfm.png ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/qtfm.png
}

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