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[Kate-prj-mng-devel] Virtual folders...

[Jiri T. <jir...@ce...>]

Hi,

I have read the discussion on sf.net and I have an other idea how to
solve the problem with virtual folders.

By my opinion you should let user make virtual folders how they want and
check only if the directories and files exists at the place where they
was defined.

I would like to have virtual folders like real directories but with
other name. If you want to add some file or directory into this virtual
folder, this file or directory must exists in the real folder. If you
want to add next virtual folder to this (virtual) directory it must not
be in this directory.

By this behavior you can very easily lost portability of the project. I
would solve this aspect by checking of each real file or directory, if
it really exists at the defined place. If it will not exist at the
defined place, you can disable all items in this branch (change color of
the dir or file name and change icon of the file or dir to crossed icon,
or something like that) and user can change the path in properties of
the folder or file. Look at this example:

[V] ... virtual folder
[D] ... real directory
[F] ... real file

cgi-bin = /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/project_name
htdocs = /var/www/localhost/htdocs/project_name
virtdir1 = /var/www/localhost/htdocs/project_name2/dir

[V] cgi-bin
    |-[D] dir1
    |-[D] dir2
    `-[F] project_name.cgi
[V] htdocs
    |-[V] virtdir1
    |     |-[F] pic1.gif
    |     |-[F] pic2.gif
    |     `-[F] pic3.gif
    `-[D] dir1
          `-[F] pic1.gif

Now if I want to move the project to my home directory to
/home/user/public_html then I have to redefine "[V] cgi-bin" to
/home/tyr/public_html/cgi-bin/project_name and "[V] htdocs" to
/home/tyr/public_html/htdocs/project_name and then "[V] virtdir1" to
/home/tyr/public_html/htdocs/project_name2/dir.

If the project file will be in file
<some_path>/cgi-bin/project_name/project_name.prj then you can define
paths of all virtual folders relatively.

If you want to make real virtual folders, it should be solved by this
way. Everything else is only one half of virtual folders.

Conclusion: Virtual folders are real problem ;o)

What do you think?

Cheers,
Jiri

PS: How can I replay on some specific mail in sf.net Mailing list? I
didn't found any "Replay" button (I was logged in).

[Kate-prj-mng-devel] Virtual folders...

[Jiri T. <jir...@ce...>]

Hi,

I have read the discussion on sf.net and I have an other idea how to
solve the problem with virtual folders.

By my opinion you should let user make virtual folders how they want and
check only if the directories and files exists at the place where they
was defined.

I would like to have virtual folders like real directories but with
other name. If you want to add some file or directory into this virtual
folder, this file or directory must exists in the real folder. If you
want to add next virtual folder to this (virtual) directory it must not
be in this directory.

By this behavior you can very easily lost portability of the project. I
would solve this aspect by checking of each real file or directory, if
it really exists at the defined place. If it will not exist at the
defined place, you can disable all items in this branch (change color of
the dir or file name and change icon of the file or dir to crossed icon,
or something like that) and user can change the path in properties of
the folder or file. Look at this example:

[V] ... virtual folder
[D] ... real directory
[F] ... real file

cgi-bin = /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/project_name
htdocs = /var/www/localhost/htdocs/project_name
virtdir1 = /var/www/localhost/htdocs/project_name2/dir

[V] cgi-bin
    |-[D] dir1
    |-[D] dir2
    `-[F] project_name.cgi
[V] htdocs
    |-[V] virtdir1
    |     |-[F] pic1.gif
    |     |-[F] pic2.gif
    |     `-[F] pic3.gif
    `-[D] dir1
          `-[F] pic1.gif

Now if I want to move the project to my home directory to
/home/user/public_html then I have to redefine "[V] cgi-bin" to
/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/project_name and "[V] htdocs" to
/home/user/public_html/htdocs/project_name and then "[V] virtdir1" to
/home/user/public_html/htdocs/project_name2/dir.

If the project file will be in file
<some_path>/cgi-bin/project_name/project_name.prj then you can define
paths of all virtual folders relatively.

If you want to make real virtual folders, it should be solved by this
way. Everything else is only one half of virtual folders.

Conclusion: Virtual folders are real problem ;o)

What do you think?

Cheers,
Jiri

PS: I can help with the Czech translation if you want.