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pichlo

2013-06-12 12:42

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

I have another feature request: overwrite existing objects (files and folders) on copy/move. It could even be configurable but I suggest the default be yes.

I was merging large folders with subfolders and it took me quite a while to figure out why "select folder - clip - navigate to destination - go to clipboard - click 'move'" did not work. It acted like done but the folder including some subfolders and files was still in the source location. The reason was that some subforders and files were already present in the destination and Hamster refused to overwrite them and remove the sources.

sixwheeledbeast

2013-08-02 22:14

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

Edit:-
Removed. I thought I found a bug but didn't, sorry :)

seanmcken

2013-08-14 07:39

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

it'd have been better if it had function of unzip or unrar etc like filebox

sixwheeledbeast

2013-08-14 15:45

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by seanmcken (Post 1367099)

it'd have been better if it had function of unzip or unrar etc like filebox

filebox pulls dependencies in to do this.

Don't see why you couldn't add an "Application" in Hamster's settings to do this after adding the packages yourself.

sixwheeledbeast

2013-08-22 20:30

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

Well with no reports of instability since it's realise, is there a chance of pushing HamsterFiler to testing?

The only minor issue is the lack of bugtracker link in the control file, however, this is no longer a blocker.

It would be nice to see this in the extras repos. :)

SHARP66

2013-08-22 22:08

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

how great we are
for an extra feature you must pray for years
why this filehandler it is not done in pyqt4 ?
it would be much slower?

gidzzz

2013-08-24 01:19

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

I am confused about a few bugs/requests from the wiki.

Quote:

debian/control misses Dependency for maemo-optify

-- Is there a point in adding a dependency on maemo-optify if the package is optified manually?

Quote:

to show the original directory of symlinked item

-- I am not sure what this one is about. Is it something different than Target in file details dialog?

Quote:

Originally Posted by impeham (Post 1324765)

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)

Hmmm... using "leafpad %s" to open "/home/user/MyDocs/test file" works fine here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1367218)

Don't see why you couldn't add an "Application" in Hamster's settings to do this after adding the packages yourself.

One reason is probably that the existing archive managers do not blend nicely into Maemo (or at least I am not aware of one that does). However, I am not planning to include support for archives in Hamster -- I would rather have a separate, full-featured application for that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1368792)

Well with no reports of instability since it's realise, is there a chance of pushing HamsterFiler to testing?

Okay, but I've got some unreleased changes that accumulated since 0.6.3 (nothing that threatens reliability), so I will make 0.6.4 out of them this weekend and then try to promote that to testing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHARP66 (Post 1368810)

why this filehandler it is not done in pyqt4 ?
it would be much slower?

And why should I prefer Python? Regarding speed, Hamster Filer is not some high-performance computing application, so I would expect it to be perfectly usable even if it was rewritten in Python.

SHARP66

2013-08-24 05:28

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1369018)

And why should I prefer Python? Regarding speed, Hamster Filer is not some high-performance computing application, so I would expect it to be perfectly usable even if it was rewritten in Python.

So it can be written in python with same performance.
It would be much easier to add new features or change aspect, button.
and if I want a new feature I could add myself or with somebody help and not praying for the developer who maybe will dye soon.
I asked more than 1 year ago to add a search function...I will wait more 10 year in the shadow for it.
python is easy to learn
that kind of program I want on my phone.
I know it is the best file-handler but it was much better if it was in python.

ade	2013-08-24 08:35

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHARP66 (Post 1369030)

So it can be written in python with same performance.

Python could be about the same speed, of course depending on how it is programmed. The startup of python programs will be slower (even if compiled to pyc).

Quote:

It would be much easier to add new features or change aspect, button.
python is easy to learn
that kind of program I want on my phone.
I know it is the best file-handler but it was much better if it was in python.

So people should rewrite their entire program in python, just because you think you are more skilled in that language?

Quote:

and if I want a new feature I could add myself or with somebody help and not praying for the developer who maybe will dye soon.
I asked more than 1 year ago to add a search function...I will wait more 10 year in the shadow for it.

Let's hope we can benefit from Gidzzz's programming skills for some more time here :)

And all the sources of Hamster Filer are available. You can create your own fork, make patches or whatever you want. But you will need to install scatchbox for that. And Qt/C++ is not that hard once you really begin to understand Python (PySide/PyQt) better.

Android_808

2013-08-24 09:48

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

If you want python there is no reason you couldn't help produce a plugin architecture that allows you to make use of languages bindings to use whatever language you want

sixwheeledbeast

2013-08-24 10:17

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1369018)

Is there a point in adding a dependency on maemo-optify if the package is optified manually?

maemo-optify is just a perl script to optify packages. I can't see why any Qt package would need this.

tanago

2013-08-24 11:28

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

Bug: thumbnails dont show when enabled root access from settings

Estel

2013-08-24 16:30

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1369058)

maemo-optify is just a perl script to optify packages. I can't see why any Qt package would need this.

Its worth to add - just to clear misinformations - that it is intended for developer's internal use, not a dependency for any package, until it's doing some kind of voodoo with scripts to post-install optify things. Not to mention perl requirement...

Considering quality of "some" request from this thread, lately, I bet that someone incompetent edited wiki, just that. Happens.

/Estel

// Edit

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanago (Post 1369065)

Bug: thumbnails dont show when enabled root access from settings

worksforme.

Sohil876

2013-08-24 22:01

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

Feature request:- a Open terminal here button like filebox in dropdown menu.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanago (Post 1369065)

Bug: thumbnails dont show when enabled root access from settings

I too face th8s bug but for me thumbnails dont work no matter if its root or not.

sixwheeledbeast

2013-08-25 12:18

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sohil876 (Post 1369140)

Feature request:- a Open terminal here button like filebox in dropdown menu.

This can be done with the applications section.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=28

I think it would be a good idea to put some of these in hamster as standard.

tanago

2013-08-25 12:32

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast (Post 1369224)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sohil876 (Post 1369140)

Feature request:- a Open terminal here button like filebox in dropdown menu.

This can be done with the applications section.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=28

I think it would be a good idea to put some of these in hamster as standard.

Its already in, I have it preinstalled o.O

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sohil876 (Post 1369140)

I too face th8s bug but for me thumbnails dont work no matter if its root or not.

Check if tracker is generating thumbnails and if it generates them for the images in the desired folder

gidzzz

2013-08-25 19:01

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanago (Post 1369065)

Bug: thumbnails dont show when enabled root access from settings

Quote:

Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1369101)

worksforme.

I hope you know that only killing the Hamster will make you a real superuser. ;) If thumbnails work despite the violence, there is something atypical with your setup.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1369101)

Considering quality of "some" request from this thread, lately, I bet that someone incompetent edited wiki, just that. Happens.

Well, in my head I have always pictured Aapo, whose packages account for half of the repository, as a competent guy. ;) I even googled that bug to see if it is perhaps just copy-pasted from somewhere by mistake. I think it is not hard to notice that Hamster is already optified, so I started to wonder if there are other benefits behind that dependency, but seeing that no one has an approving explanation, I am removing it from the list.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanago (Post 1369229)

Its already in, I have it preinstalled o.O

Yes, there are two preinstalled commands: Notes, Terminal (current dir). However, they are added only if the list is blank and untouched, thus usually do not appear after an upgrade.

As promised, Hamster Filer 0.6.4 is out.

Added location history, currently operable only with keyboards shortcuts (Backspace, Shift+Backspace).
Added persistent mode for the location editor.
Added an option to save location on exit.
Added some error messages related to file renaming.
Added a note that restart is required for the superuser setting to take effect.
Initially select only the base name in filename input fields.
Unlocked the ability to edit the applications list right before opening a file.
Use a URI when opening a file with its default application, which should improve compatibility with some applications.
Better recovery from an invalid starting location.
Do not show the second location info field in attention dialog for remove operations.
Decreased the margin in the settings window to avoid horizontal scrolling with wider fonts.
Force dates to be in English for consistency.
Some tweaks in the packaging.

The mysterious "persistent mode", can be turned on to prevent the location editor from disappearing every time the location is changed. In this mode it will be replaced by the breadcrumbs only when you press 'X'.

I have promoted the package to extras-testing, so give it a whirl and express your approval (or lack of) by voting here: http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...filer/0.6.4-1/.

impeham

2013-08-26 08:26

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1369306)

That is because g_get_home_dir(), which is used by Hildon in the process of generating thumbnail URIs, ignores $HOME. I have not yet decided what to do with it. If you want an immediate workaround, you can symlink /root/.thumbnails to /home/user/.thumbnails/.

I hope you know that only killing the Hamster will make you a real superuser. ;) If thumbnails work despite the violence, there is something atypical with your setup.

Well, in my head I have always pictured Aapo, whose packages account for half of the repository, as a competent guy. ;) I even googled that bug to see if it is perhaps just copy-pasted from somewhere by mistake. I think it is not hard to notice that Hamster is already optified, so I started to wonder if there are other benefits behind that dependency, but seeing that no one has an approving explanation, I am removing it from the list.

Yes, there are two preinstalled commands: Notes, Terminal (current dir). However, they are added only if the list is blank and untouched, thus usually do not appear after an upgrade.

As promised, Hamster Filer 0.6.4 is out.

Added location history, currently operable only with keyboards shortcuts (Backspace, Shift+Backspace).
Added persistent mode for the location editor.
Added an option to save location on exit.
Added some error messages related to file renaming.
Added a note that restart is required for the superuser setting to take effect.
Initially select only the base name in filename input fields.
Unlocked the ability to edit the applications list right before opening a file.
Use a URI when opening a file with its default application, which should improve compatibility with some applications.
Better recovery from an invalid starting location.
Do not show the second location info field in attention dialog for remove operations.
Decreased the margin in the settings window to avoid horizontal scrolling with wider fonts.
Force dates to be in English for consistency.
Some tweaks in the packaging.

This history back/forward feature is a life saver - can you make it work between sessions also?

Estel

2013-08-26 17:01

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1369306)

Well, in my head I have always pictured Aapo, whose packages account for half of the repository, as a competent guy. ;)

Ough - he is competent, for sure. Maybe it's good idea to just ask him via PM, what the hell he had in mind while writing that wiki notice?

AapoRantalainen

2013-09-02 06:34

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1369549)

Ough - he is competent, for sure. Maybe it's good idea to just ask him via PM, what the hell he had in mind while writing that wiki notice?

I copied wiki text from FileBox to the HamsterFiler. I tried to check them all, but still there might be some stupidity.

If you are referring 'missing maemo-optify on depends': I mistyped 'Depends', when I really meant 'Build-Depends'.

As fresh installed maemo-sdk doesn't have maemo-optify, this will fail:

Code:

apt-get source hamsterfiler ;apt-get build-dep hamsterfiler

cd hamsterfiler* ; dpkg-buildpackage

Sorry, it took so long to comment this. Feel free to PM if I'm not responding.

artpra

2013-10-11 05:55

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

@gidzzz
reporting directory size in "File details" (via long press "Details") is broken: it only shows directory size (logical object), not total size of all its contents like it should. So i.e. it`s reporting 4kB size for directory filled with bunch of mp3 files.
If You can make it to report not only size but more info about directory contents (number of subdirectories in directory, number of files in directory - just like stock file manager does) it would be great.

elros34

2013-10-12 12:56

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

I like grid view but I can't recognize files with long name so if you can make two line for file's name it will great. Thanks in advance.

Egon	2013-10-12 13:12

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

Can we expect this great tool to become available for N9 and Sailfish phones?

UJKU	2014-02-15 18:31

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

How to access SD Card ?

michaaa62

2014-02-15 19:02

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

Might be mounted at /media/mmcX, with X some digit, presumably 1.

gidzzz

2014-04-26 20:15

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1351447)

I was merging large folders with subfolders and it took me quite a while to figure out why "select folder - clip - navigate to destination - go to clipboard - click 'move'" did not work. It acted like done but the folder including some subfolders and files was still in the source location. The reason was that some subforders and files were already present in the destination and Hamster refused to overwrite them and remove the sources.

Wow, it took me almost a year to take care of this bug (to make it even worse, it turned out to be 10 minutes of work :o), but I guess better late than never. Hamster Filer 0.6.5:

Fixed the inability to overwrite directories.
Tweaked the layout of the file details dialog.

Sohil876

2014-04-26 20:52

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by gidzzz (Post 1422936)

Wow, it took me almost a year to take care of this bug (to make it even worse, it turned out to be 10 minutes of work :o), but I guess better late than never. Hamster Filer 0.6.5:

Fixed the inability to overwrite directories.
Tweaked the layout of the file details dialog.

Thanks, but what happened to.....

Quote:

Originally Posted by artpra (Post 1379926)

this? Can you implement this please, its annoying to use terminal for getting directory size.

gidzzz

2014-05-18 20:39

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sohil876 (Post 1422937)

Thanks, but what happened to.....

Lack of time prevented me from implementing it. However, it is present in Hamster Filer 0.6.6:

Show summary of directory contents in the file details dialog.
Show item count for directories in the file list.
Create thumbnails if they do not already exist.
Use thousands separator in the file details dialog.
Simpler file size format.
Fixed a memory leak when frantically reloading the file list.
Prevent unchecking of the current location button.

sixwheeledbeast

2014-06-20 03:45

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

No issues here with the current Devel version.
Any chance you can push this to testing so we can get the latest fixes in Extras.
Thanks.

gidzzz

2014-06-21 20:51

Re: [Maemo 5] [Announce] Hamster Filer 0.6.4

Sure. You can vote here: http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...filer/0.6.6-1/.

robthebold

2015-12-07 20:55

I just installed hamsterfiler 0.6.6-1. Looking great so far, with a better combination of flexibility and features than other file browsers. And a nice looking UI. So thanks.

I also think I found a bug. When switching to a directory that includes an sshfs mount point, it closes unexpectedly. The error shown in terminal is:"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc"

I retyped that, so mistakes in quote are my own.

After unmounting the share and restarting hamsterfiler, I can switch into the directory without problem.

And BTW, I don't see an 'About' function. Author should take credit for this nice program.

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