Dolphin (Zren)

This is a fork of the Dolphin file browser that patches in a couple of features.

• Sort hidden files and folders last
  Eg: The hidden folder .git would be at the bottom of the file list after all the non-hidden files.
  [Bug #333219] Mentions the issue is a WontFix since 0.1% users probably want it.
• Closing split view will close the inactive view by default instead of needing to configure it.
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D18040
• Left/Right panels will extend to the bottom when there's a bottom panel (more room for bookmarks while the terminal is visible).
  Need to reset the your panel/layout for this to take effect (see install instructions).
• Adds a new panel that looks like a toolbar with the back/forward/up buttons, a change "view mode" dropdown button. The panel is the same height as the address bar, so you don't need to use an entire 50px row or column for a couple of buttons. The buttons are not configurable like a toolbar unfortunately.
• Added a few "View Modes" which will toggle "Preview" automatically, and "Zoom" to specific sizes which are familiar to Windows users.
  Huge Icons, Large Icons, and Tiled view mode presets.
• When a folder is a mount point (usb/hard drive/partition), show progressbar in the "Size" column instead of the number of files it contains.
• In the Places panel, moved devices above the recently saved and search but below bookmarks.
• Select child folder when going up
  [Bug #315471] closed as invalid (because you should be going "back").
  [Bug #377392] should be a duplicate, but contains a patch by the creator.

This fork isn't always up to date with KDE/Dolphin's master branch. To see what is missing, compare the branches.

Install from source (to /usr/local/bin)

sudo apt-get build-dep dolphin
wget https://github.com/Zren/dolphin/archive/zren.zip dolphin-zren.zip
unzip dolphin-zren.zip dolphin-zren
rm dolphin-zren.zip
cd dolphin-zren
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON
make
chmod +x ./bin/dolphin

You can test if everything went well by running:

./bin/dolphin

If it ran okay you can copy the binary to /usr/local/bin.

sudo cp ./bin/dolphin /usr/local/bin/dolphin

Lastly, upon the first install, we need to reset the panels/layout so that we can make left/right panels extend to the bottom of the window when the bottom panel (terminal) is visible. We need to close all dolphin windows first.

killall dolphin
kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/dolphinrc --group MainWindow --key State ''

Sorry you had to do that. I wasn't able to find a way to update the "state" after it was initially created so we had to reset it.

Update (when installed from source)

Just delete the old directory and redo the install instructions.

Uninstall (when installed from source)

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/dolphin

Dolphin (KDE)

See http://dolphin.kde.org for information about Dolphin.