Re: Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder (analogous to behaviour of git window)

Awesome! Thanks again for you help! 
 
 
 
 
 

May 17, 2022 23:55:56 Waqar Ahmed <[email protected]>:

 
 
 You can also reach out on the Kate group chat and ask for help there.  
 
 
 
 On Wed, May 18, 2022, 2:54 AM Waqar Ahmed <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 
 
 
 If you want to work on it yourself, you can just open an issue as I said earlier. That's fine 
 
 
 
 On Tue, May 17, 2022, 11:14 PM Stefan Riha <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 
 
 Thanks! For now I filed it in the bugtracker: 
 
 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453944 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453944> 
 
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 -----Original message----- 
 From: Waqar Ahmed 
 Sent: Tuesday, May 17 2022, 7:05 pm 
 To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
 Subject: Re: Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder (analogous to behaviour of git window) 
 
 sounds reasonable to me. 
 
 Best open an issue at https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate <https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate> <https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate <https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate> > so that 
 more people can respond. 
 
 On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Stefan Riha <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> wrote: 
 > 
 > I just saw that the "options" action of the filesystem browser contains an entry 
 > 
 > "automatically synchronize with current document" 
 > 
 > Would it be possible to make an entry: 
 > 
 > "automatically synchronize with the top-level project directory of the current file" 
 > 
 > -----Original message----- 
 > From: Stefan Riha 
 > Sent: Tuesday, May 17 2022, 6:24 pm 
 > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 
 > Subject: Configure Filesystem Browser to show current project folder (analogous to behaviour of git window) 
 > 
 > The behaviour of the git window is to "follow" the currently edited file, i.e. if the file belongs to a project, then open the project automatically. This is great. 
 > 
 > I would like to configure the Filesystem Browser analogously, that is: open the project folder in the Filesystem Browser window automatically (if the file belongs to a project). 
 > 
 > Is this currently possible? I did not see anything related in the browser's "configure" context menu. There is a "current document folder" entry, but this is cumbersome. First, I have to actively press the button (not automatic), and second, the files are often in a subfolder, and I almost never want to switch to the subfolder of a project, but instead to the project's parent folder. 
 > 
 > I am used to this behaviour from VScode. 
 > 
 > What would I have to do to implement this? Would this be best done with a plugin? 
 > 
 > Thanks a lot for your help! 
 > 
 >