thing i want in file browsers: i go into a folder. i set a file as "sticky." it now stays in place in a little sidebar so i can drag other stuff onto it from the folder. this will never exist in any operating system because it wouldn't appeal to a billion+ people. linux is supposed to be the savior that ignores market appeal to deliver wild stuff like this anyway, but it's shit is more conservatively designed than the shit it's been desperately trying and failing to clone for 15 years
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yeah but that's global. i hate putting stuff in there for that reason
would unpinning it right after you finish using it be an annoying-but-effective solution, or is it like a 'visible to others on the network' thing?
it's like something i want to be able to use for 10 minutes while i'm doing something and then not need to clean up after, basically
Wouldn’t this only be useful with folders? In this case, the feature could be called pinned folders.
Folders that are pinned can be found in a pinboard view (reuse split view in Dolphin file manager for example) or sidebar pane. There could be two options in the settings:
- global (pinboard shared across windows)
- per-window (presumably what you want)
Was just informed that this exists for some KDE apps:
https://apps.kde.org/filestash/
Linux distro repo availability:
https://repology.org/project/kio-stash/versions
How close is this to what you want?
It's closer to the "wharf" concept I've been thinking about for a long time. It's cool, and a thing I want, but still larger in scope than what I was describing. I just want to freeze a single icon in a folder, so it doesn't move when I scroll around, and only for the duration that I'm in that folder; like holding a bolt in one hand while you pick up wrenches in the other to compare with it.
sounds like a dual column file manager might solve it?
i used to use directory opus and there is also like total commander, double commander, and others
Sort of like a drag and drop "second clipboard" basically, right? But not global, something to only persist for that window, that session, to be cleared out when the window is closed, right? I think I've done something like that with Total Commander on Android and maybe Directory Opus on Amiga, but I don't remember how I got to it on TC. Its UI is rather obtuse, especially on mobile.
Another idea tangent to this one: pinned files. They stay at the top of the folder and/or the top of the window, regardless of the folder sorting. I've hacked this by naming files with "!" at the start, but that's not ideal at all.
Closest thing would be installing this for KIO:
https://apps.kde.org/filestash/
https://repology.org/project/kio-stash/versions
I think MacOS can kinda do what you want? If you drag files that an program can open onto its icon on the dock, the files open in that program.
I had assumed Windows also worked that way until I saw this post and tested it.
I thought windows did goes to test
i know KDE can, like i can pin audacity to the task manager and drag a MP3 file onto it and it opens it
huh, app icons on the task bar cant have files dragged to be opened by the app
linux file managers are notoriously stale in terms of adding new cutting edge features these days. system-wide tagging? nope, too many silo'd projects would need coordinating, for that to get made. though one weird thing i'd like to see that probably not enough people would need, is a way of attaching files to others so they get auto-moved along with the main file.
Closest thing to system-wide tagging on Linux would be when running KDE Plasma Desktop. Tag with the Dolphin file manager, then be able to use them for sorting even with the file picker or really anything that also uses KIO. Unfortunately anything outside of the KDE ecosystem, except for apps using the XDG portal for file pickers, can't really make use of this.
Sway has a feature like this called Scratchpad that I started using when I installed Garuda Linux last week. It's like an application mallet space that lets you shove any active window into and show, hide and toggle between other windows you've shoved in there. It's agnostic of what workspace you are on and will always display over other applications that are tiled.
Back in macOS 9 (and maybe 8?) you could pin a folder to the bottom of the screen. I am struggling to find the official name (sticky folders? pinned folders?), but here's a Reddit post with a screenshot because I don't know how to put screenshots in Cohost replies: https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/e0pyde/is_there_a_way_to_bring_back_mac_os_9_style_pop/