Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-11 Thread Abhishek Sood A
Hii I was just thinking if its possible to categorize the downloads in konqueror depending on file types and target it to respective folders which would make it easier to access. Thanks, -- Abhishek Sood A Graduate Masters Student Northwestern University, >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/li

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Stefan Majewsky
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Abhishek Sood A wrote: > Hii I was just thinking if its possible to categorize the downloads in > konqueror depending on file types and target it to respective folders which > would make it easier to access. It's probably not enough for a full GSoC. Once you found

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Mason
> By the way, if you want to sort downloads by file types, using Nepomuk > is the obvious solution. I like this idea but please consider there are some people, for which Nepomuk is disabled. This can be because Nepomuk impacts the performance of their desktop in some way, or simply because the b

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Abhishek Sood A
I was not thinking of using Nepomuk. I was thinking of sorting based on file types and directing the downloads to different pre-set subfolders in Downloads(like Downloads\Music or Downloads\Documents). The downloading application identifies the file types and the application that open the file but

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Mason
Hi Abhishek, >@Andrew: I would like to get your feedback on this and it would be great if >you could let me know on how should I proceed with this. Also your thoughts >on this from GSoC perspective I think it's a great idea, however I'm not a core developer so from a mentor perspective you wou

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 14.02.2012, 01:22 Uhr, schrieb Abhishek Sood A : I think this involves significant amount of work in terms of adding a UI to set the target folders for different file types and creating download filters. Like adding a KUrlRequester to the File association kcm ...? The problem should rath

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-02-13, Andrew Mason wrote: >> By the way, if you want to sort downloads by file types, using Nepomuk >> is the obvious solution. > > I like this idea but please consider there are some people, for which Nepomuk > is disabled. This can be because Nepomuk impacts the performance of their >

Re: Konqueror- GSOC idea

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Mason
> > I don't think these people should be our main target audience. We all have intel core-i5's at work and were forced turn Nepomuk off for performance issues with kde 4.7.4 / 4.8. That is not new hardware but there would still be a reasonable portion of people with lesser hardware using KDE.