Miller Columns in

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Hi guys,

I am a huge fan of all-things KDE and I love Dolphin. I am missing one thing:
miller columns, which I assume would be great to have :smiley:
I don’t want to be rude or ungrateful, as I absolutely love the work that people put into it.
I really liked the “finder” when a friend showed me a MACOS (the only thing I liked about it :smiley: ) and I started wondering, whether it would be possible to implement it into dolphin or whether someone already is working on it … I have tried with Python and got the traditional views (using Qt6), but I am not satisfied with the performance :smiley:
It mainly supports styling, i.e. accent colors and icons, but I’d rather have a fully fledged explorer than miller columns …
So I guess my question is boiling down to “is it planned” and “would it be maintainable?”

all the best and thanks in advance,
K

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Its tracked here: 387455 – Column view in Dolphin

It seems its just a lot of work and nobody had the time to do it yet.

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Oh, nice!
Thanks for the help!

That seems like a lot of money/work - I’d love to chip in but as an individual I don’t have that kind of money freely available :sweat_smile:

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It would need to be collective, but we don’t have a structure for this ATM.

And then a dev with no employment contract (or willing to leave its job) to work on a it for a few weeks…

I would consider it as a dolphin maintainer but I have no time for it, for instance.

It can be done in “spare-time” mode but that would take months or years.
But people like to have a life in weekends and not keep contributing everyday.

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Yeah, I fully understand all of these points!
I did not intend to be pushy or ungrateful!

Everybody deserves weekends and time off - ultimately free time, family, and friends are more important than career or fulfilling other people’s wishes!

Thank you for your reply!
I am looking forward for more amazing software, coming from all the developers with KDE!