Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

About "always open file with", isn't dbus-switchboard package exactly mean't for that? As it affects whole Maemo, I don't see reason, why it shouldn't be compatible with Hamster.

Even more than that - if decided to duplicated dbus-switchboard functionality inside Hamster, it would be regression for people using the former. So, if decided to, make it at least configurable (aka "turn off"), pretty please.

/Estel

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Well this way is the most-flexible way I think but I would like to see just as in filebox, a special option for edit, used this alot.

Unfortunately did filebox not list all texteditors, like it didn't list txpad or KhtEditor. Nano and leafpad were succesfully integrated there.

Since I compared to filebox, I spotted more convenient differences for example
*Filebox has a nice way to tar a folder and or multiple files
*Filebox has inbuilt ability to open zip and tar internally (maybe even rar too but I don't remember)

Of course this are just request of useful features. You are not forced to implement anything of this. Actually I like the flexibility of putting your own command for open with..

Drawback of this method is that is a bit more unconvienent/difficult to set (for less experienced users).

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Noticed a bug: When you use the keyboard to navigate it doesn't highlight the upfolder icon in both grid and list view. The highlight just dissappears.

Also when entering the folder you don't see the highlight because it starts in the upperight corner, the upfolder icon. When entering a folder you lose kind of your highlight...

Other thing, could backspace be mapped to previous folder? Just like you did with OMP?

Thanks gidzzz

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Bugs:
1. Switching navigation bar (with bottom left icon) on/off resets multiselecion highlight
2. Go to some long patch, for example "/home/user/MyDocs/cities/diskcache/0/0/", now swipe navigation bar to the right to see "/" button and use it: You will be taken to the "/" as expected, but navigation bar swipes to the left by itself. Shouldn`t it stay at leftmost position showing "/", where You currently are?

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

While changing directory, filebox is able to show another directory without flickering screen. Instead of showing blank screen for some milliseconds, it keeps on showing the old directory until new directory view is ready. It feels faster and smoother that way. I hope you got what I am saying.

Would be nice to see about and help menu in the application.

The view is not aligned to center of screen (instead, some space is left on right).

Possibly different sizes of grids to choose from for grid view.

Great works man. Will be replacing my filebox with this one soon.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Request:

When one long-press path tabs (tabs, representing directories in path to current one), it got replaced by familiar imputable text field, where we can define path manually, using auto-completion, just like in filebox.

For me (and as I suppose, for many other users), it's more convenient, than clicking on tabs. Could there be an option, to make it *default* way, in which path is presented? Currently, upon every start of hamster, one need to long-press it, as toggle trigger.

Thanks in advance,

/Estel

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

The most useful file manager for Maemo so far! THANK YOU

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Great app! Handy and flexible, with custom commands.
My additional commands:

• 1. Terminal for current dir:
  osso-xterm "sh -c 'cd """$(dirname ""%s"")"""; sh'"
• 2. Upload to ftp:
  ncftpput -u username -p password 10.0.0.1 / %s
• 3. Create playlist for selected dir (*.mp3;*.mp4;*.flac):
  osso-xterm "sh -c 'find ""%s"" -type f -name *.mp3 -o -name *.mp4 -o -name *.flac > ""%s"".m3u'"
• 4. QML viewer:
  qmlviewer -I /opt/qtm12/imports -fullscreen -opengl %s
• 5. Install deb-package:
  osso-xterm "sh -c 'sudo dpkg -i ""%s"";echo ""press any key for exit"";read key;'"
• 6. Unzip to dir:
  unzip-fm %s
• 7. Try to execute Harmattan app:
  meecolay %s

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Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

How can I open video files with another player instead of default player ?
for example : Kmplayer ..
I tried to add kmplayer to applications like that :
( kmplayer) in the upper field .
( Kmplayer %s) in command bar
>>>>
but when I try to open a file with ( open with ) then chose kmplayer , nothing happen ..
how can I add my favorite apps please ??
I love to add those :
Kmplayer , leafpad , mypaint , symfonie , evince ,
>>>
ooh sorry .. I forget to thank u for this great app .. keep going man .

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Not all apps can to open file from command... but need to try it!

Example for KMPlayer:

• 1. Try to run from terminal.
  "kmplayer" -> not found
• 2. Okay, then go to "/usr/share/applications/hildon" and reading ".desktop" file.
  "kmplayer.desktop"
  Exec="/opt/kmplayer/bin/kmplayer"
  It's path to binary - u can run it!
• 3. Try to run from Hamster.
  "/opt/kmplayer/bin/kmplayer %s" -> it's work - release & happy :)

"leafpad %s" -> working.
"evince %s" -> working too.
....

I think it's good feature request - preinstalled examples for applications, OR better - "Open with..." show dialog with list of applications, loaded from .desktop files - choose and auto add name and command with %s param favorites in top - it's really like "Open with...". And for commands other item menu...

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Million Thanx my brother .. It's really work perfectly .. I think kmplayer was need the full path as u said .. now the program became usefull with this great feature , so when i need to play video which cannot open with default player and only need kmplayer , all i have to do is just : open with ... no need to open kmplayer and search for that file ..

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

there another problem I just found today ..
I cant share any file with bluetooth ..
when I long press>then :share > bluetooth ... nothing happen ...
is there a problem I have in my case , or the program itself cannot do that ??
sorry for bothering u with questions all time .. but I loved to make this program usefull as-much-as it can be .

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Excuse my absence, since the last update I was so busy that I could even hardly find time to sleep, but still I somehow managed to dedicate a few minutes now an then to this project and this is how, with much struggle, Hamster Filer 0.6.2 finally appears. :) There are no shiny features, but some useful improvements are present:

• Scrollbar position is restored after selecting a directory from the location bar or performing an operation which causes the file list to be reloaded.
• Location bar can be shown/hidden without reloading the file list.
• Some example application entries are created on the first run.
• Removed all traces of the menu bar of applications window when opening it in application-launching mode.
• Enabling multi-select clears the selection to prevent selecting an additional item by mistake.
• Loading indicator is shown when opening a directory.
• Fixed sharing via Bluetooth.
• Fixed the location bar scrolling to an outdated button.

Sounds very strange indeed and I have no idea what's possibly going on, so I'm afraid I can't help you.

I haven't observed anything like that, but 0.6.2 treats nonexistent files in a more careful way, so it might fix the problem for you.



It's actually half-bug, half-feature. ;) Selection is disabled for the first item so that the parent directory cannot be a subject to file operations. Maybe I'll think of a better solution.



I have the opposite feeling about that. :p In FileBox you can't see the moment of refreshing a directory just because its GUI is frozen (try pressing a button when loading a lot of files). Hamster Filer will show an empty list for a moment, but the GUI is responsive for most of the loading time.



Do you remember about Ctrl+L? But if it's still not fast enough, I think I could add such option.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.2 - a new file manager
 

Sorry if I´m dumb..
I can see images, photos in the file manager have to add some app?
And also I don´t have installe xarchiver is there a way to ad another unzip unrar like in stock FM or in Filebox?
Thank for the app!!

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

OOh .. thanx a lot my brother .. it's really great work and I appreciate it .. you almost fixed everything I wanted ..
But , is this update ready to install now ??
thanx again .

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
 

Good catch - I forget about it. Yet, it would still be useful, to have possibility of setting it as default way of "handling" directory path. After all, it eliminates ctrl+ L on every startup... ;)

Thanks a lot for your work on this project it's really, really appreciated!

/Estel

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.2 - a new file manager
 

This file manager rocks!

Suggestion for 2 very useful features:

1. A "back" button - to return to previous folder/s
2. Save last folder on exit and return to it on next startup

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.2 - a new file manager
 

I didn't found the new version (0.6.2) .. Mr gidzzz said that this new version is " finally appears " , but when try to upgrade from terminal nothing happen , and when I try to : apt-get install hamsterfiler . it says : hamsterfilers is allready th newest version ... that's mean there are no updates available to download .
when the updates will be ready to download ??

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.2 - a new file manager
 

Hmmm, no one complains that Bluetooth is still not working? :p I lived in a blissful belief that I fixed it last time, but to my disappointment, I have recently discovered that it is still broken.

This time it should be taken care of for good -- I tested it over and over again until my N900 started to complain about low battery. ;) That is only one among a few changes in Hamster Filer 0.6.3, all of them are listed below.

• Added an option to save the location on exit.
• Fixed misdetection of existing entries when creating a new file/directory.
• Fixed sharing via Bluetooth.
• Added some error messages to the file details dialog.
• Better recovery from an invalid starting location.
• Reduced the margin in the settings window to avoid horizontal scrolling with wider fonts.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Thanks for the great filemanager . This is the only file manager that worked with the keyboard ( the digitiser was broken last month ) .

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

God - this file browser rocks!

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

I can't seem to delete files or folders with hamster filer.

Comes to an Error Dialog with Skip, Retry and Abort.

Tried as normal and as root, no output in a terminal.
Anybody else have this problem?

Edit:-

Seems on terminating application the error in terminal is...

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

No problems over here. Can you remove the file using the commandline rm? Is your MyDocs perhaps mounted as read only?

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Same issue over here
Yes I am able to delete it with rm and using filebox
no MyDocs is not read only

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Yes . FIlebox will delete the files.
However the folder I was trying to delete had a file deep in the directories which seemed be corrupt.
After deleting the one corrupt file with Filebox the whole directory was removed no problem.

I still cannot remove files or folders from anywhere with Hamster.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

I find it hard to believe, as FileBox also seems to use QFile::remove() for deleting files. :eek: From what I understood, even the most trivial deletion fails, is that right? By "most trivial" I mean something like:

• navigate to "/home/user/",
• create a file and give it a simple name (for example "a"),
• delete "a".

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

The above works, however I can't delete the below for example when filebox will.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

If "a.txt" is a file freshly created with Hamster (this is essential to rule out any problems with permissions), then it leaves me stunned. The only thing that I can think of is some random corruption, possibly fixed by rebooting or reinstalling Hamster.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

OK so it seems like a permissions thing.

I can create and remove "home/user/.myscripts/a.txt with FileBox but I can't do either with Hamster with run as root on or off.

However /home/user/MyDocs/a.txt will create and delete with Hamster.

It seems files with root permissions are not editable with Hamster.

After the above all working perfect.

I must have created the folder with filebox set to "run as root"

Can Hamster not warn of bad permissions?

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Are you aware that Hamster also requires restart before "run as root" is applied? You can tell if it's really running as root by looking at the window title (it should say "Hamster Filer (root)").

As long as it uses QFile for removing files (but that might change) -- no, error reporting is very scarce there. Yeah, FileBox warns you, but it deals with that by trying to create an empty file next to the one which should be deleted. I don't like such approach, and it's still just guessing.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

No I wasn't, should this be put the checkbox label? :)


Ok, many thanks for your help and explanation.
I do prefer Hamster to FileBox, also your code is very tidy and well annotated :)

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

can you please help with the sourcecode of Hamster filemanager?

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Source is available here. I want to change size of icons files (how?) but there are errors when compiling.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

using %s does not work when i click on a filename which has spaces - i tried tagging it with '%s' but then the application won't launch at all.

[Edit] solved (strangely) with:
\"%s \" (the space after %s was important)

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

gidzzz - kindly requesting 2 more features:

1. "Back" button to return to previous folder/s
2. set folder permissions propagation (set permissions in recurse on all files/folders in a folder)

This is the best file browser i ever used on a mobile device - thanks for the great work :)

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Best start is: (It is good start with any package)

And then copy-paste your errors here.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

I started wiki page for Hamster Filer: http://wiki.maemo.org/HamsterFiler to collect existing bugs. I used FileBox's wikipage as a starting point and every feature request given for FileBox is now feature request for Hamster Filer :D

I think most needed feature is translations.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Reformatted and added more information to wiki.
Also noted there is no bugtracker link for the application.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

According to the src/main.cpp license is GPLv3+.

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.3
 

Seconded.

I would also like to add:
3. Folder details to show the number of items in that folder (ideally separated to 'files' and 'subfolders', but not crucial) and their combined size.
4. A dual-pane view or at least an easy way to switch between two locations. One can use bookmarks for that but one does not always want to add temporary bookmarks, not to mention that having a flip-flop is faster and less error prone especially if one has many bookmarks.

I second that too. Amen!