On Monday 08 December 2008 07:41:05 Scott Newton wrote:
On Sunday 07 December 2008 05:32:50 Sven Burmeister wrote:
I work on several projects, which are organised in separate folders, I want all of those files on the desktop, grouped by project and showing only the relevant files, i.e. office documents and no backup files. I want to add/remove those groups easily, i.e. I might have a project that is "on hold" and hence that group should not be shown but it should be easy to re-add, i.e. I do not want to move/copy any files.
The folder view widget will do this. You can specify both the directory and the mask.
In KDE 4.1.3, you have 2 choices to achieve this. Open Dolphin, select your folder and drag it to the desktop. A popup will appear asking if you want a Folder View or an Icon to be created. If you choose "Folder View", a folder view widget will be created showing you the contents of that folder. If you choose "Icon", it will behave as KDE3 did, creating an icon on the desktop that links to the folder. When you click on the icon, the linked folder will be opened in Dolphin. The only thing different betweeen the way 4.1.3 behaves and the way 3.5.x behaves (from a user point of view) is the additional choice of the Folder View widget (which I don't personally use but others probably find useful). Oh, and the fact that the icons are directly scalable as are other desktop widgets (instead of having a single global icon size setting). Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================