Open folder of the document

[sojusnik]

Hi!

It would be very useful, if the toolbar could have an icon, that opens the folder of the current document or tab respectively.

Thanks!

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello again,

Whether it makes sense to implements this depends mainly on how well-integrated launching the user's default file manager to open the folder is in Qt. I'll investigate this and report back here.

Best regards, Adam.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

There is now a branch lp:~adamreichold/qpdfview/open-folder which contains an implementation. Please test and report.

[sojusnik (sojusnik)]

I'm sorry, I don't know how to install this branch. My coding skills are very limited.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

There are two ways to go forward:
* If you're comfortable with building from source: Fetch the branch's code using Bazaar and build it yourself for testing purposes.
* If you're not comfortable with building from source: Wait until the branch is merged into trunk (after the release of version 0.4.5) and try out the dailydebs available at [1].

In either case, if you have any difficulties, ask for assistance on the mailing list. (By the way, if you make yourself a (temporary) member of the qpdfview group on Launchpad, your messages to mailing list don't need to be approved by me and you will probably get help by someone else faster.)

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~adamreichold/+archive/qpdfview-dailydeb

[sojusnik (sojusnik)]

I'll prefer the latter.

Thank you!

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

I changed the branch to move the action into the tab bar context menu since I don't think it should be handled on the same level as action like open or refresh. This also allows to open the folder containing any open tab, not just the current one.

[Ari (ari-lp)]

Thanks for adding this option, Adam. This was something I was looking for as well.

Unfortunately by moving this action to the tab context menu you inadvertently made it impossible to open the parent folder when only one document is open. To solve this I would propose to add a classic action in addition to the existing context menu entry.

Cheers
-- Ari

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

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Hello again,

Am 24.09.2013 14:40, schrieb Ari:
> Thanks for adding this option, Adam. This was something I was
> looking for as well.
>
> Unfortunately by moving this action to the tab context menu you
> inadvertently made it impossible to open the parent folder when
> only one document is open. To solve this I would propose to add a
> classic action in addition to the existing context menu entry.

I unterstand the problem, but since I really don't wan't this to
clutter the menu or tool bar, I just moved it into the document view
instead of the tab bar context menu. (Since this is really not a core
PDF viewer function, just a nicety.)

> Cheers -- Ari
>

Best regards, Adam.
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[Ari (ari-lp)]

I see your point, Adam. I am absolutely fine with having it in the document context menu. Thanks for getting onto this right away!