GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 328509
folders tree view
Last modified: 2009-09-10 19:02:57 UTC
Do you consider to implement a folders tree view? It would be very helpful if one could browse through the folders in a tree view as it is possible with nautilus and on folder select(or click) its content would be listed in a right panel as it does now although after entering the folder. I my opinion the tree view would speed up the browsing through the images very much.
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and what ??? 9 month, 4 requests and 0 reactions ... it is a pity ...
Improvements don't happen by themselves just because someone asks for it. It's a lot of work to rip out a key section of code and replace it with something new. Patches are welcome for review, of course! - Mike
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Hi there, I'm looking into this for work and would personnaly love to see this happen as well. However, looking at the current source code makes me think that it's not gonna be easy. I hope I'll be able to come up with patches but it's going to take some time. If devs have tips on how to approach this, I'd be glad to take any information.
Gilles, well, the good news is that http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gthumb/trunk/src/gth-dir-list.c is pretty small, less than 1000 lines of code. However, a fair bit of code would have to be added to extract more information about the current location (e.g., iterate up to obtain all of the parent and "sibling" folders.) Also: gThumb should be ported from gnome_vfs to gvfs / gio / gfile. It might (or might not) make sense to do that first, because the gfile api has handy functions like g_file_get_parent. However, that porting would be a very big task; there are a lot of gnome_vfs functions in gthumb. It's worth keeping it in mind. - Mike
actually I was thinking of "copying" the current gedit file browser extension, so that it would be easy to work with gedit guys to move to gvfs when necessary. The best option would probably be for nautilus to somehow provide a generic browsing widget but I'm not sure if it's feasible at all. I just throw the question on their chan and I'm waiting for input.
I was unaware of the gedit browser extension. It would make sense to copy it. - Mike
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Fixed in ext branch, which will become the new trunk branch soon. - Mike