Plasma/Active/PA4/Files

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PA4 tasks discovery process for Files application.

Functional Defects

Method

One line per defect describing it. We will triage confirmed and unfixed to bugs.kde.org.

Status Name Summary Developer
TODO Tag reset Select a tag, change file type being shown; tags UI is reset and you can not un-set the tag selected


TODO Perform a search that results in a folder being shown; enter the folder. The sidebar UI becomes permanently disabled.

UI Improvements

Method

One section per issue. User stories for workflow related issues. Include a problem statement and possible solution:

Problem: ... User story: ... Suggested Solution: ...


Status Name Summary Developer
TODO Sidebar Tabs Description


IN PROGRESS Intro Page Description


Sidebar Tabs

Problem: The sidebar tabs match the content area background, do not always line up with the sidebar and are visually noisy as separate tabs. Suggested Solution: Merge the three tabs into a single (visually) tab with dividers between the words; make the width be the sidebar width and position directly above it; adjust the image used so that it matches the sidebar "hatch" background better visually.

Intro Page

Problem: the intro page is redundant with the main sidebar: there are the same categories and they may get out of sync. Moveover it makes people want to "go back" when there is no need to. Suggested Solution: get rid of the intro page completely. Start with just the sidebar, selecting a category makes the main page slide in

Missing Functionality

Method

Provide a user story describing the workflow that is not currently possible. Implementation planning will happen in a second round. (So detailed solutions do not need to be suggested.)

Content-type Specific Metadata as Tags

Jerry has copied a number of photos from his camera SD card to his tablet. He opens Files to view the images and finds select metadata in the Tags section pulled from the keyword and geolocation metadata of the images. Similarly, he has a number of books on his device with author and other metadata associated with them. When opening books, this metadata appears in the Tags automatically.

Suggested Solution: provide some specific UI for resource type (the same ones as the sidebar: documents, music, images...) that ui, living in the sidebar will allow to filter by metadata specific for the type, like author, album, geolocation, etc. Types of metadata can be specific for a resource type, for instance Album would be available only in "music"