Dolphin and other KDE apps will display the file creation date

A feature traditionally requested in Linux and other Unix-like systems is the ability to see, in our file manager or other similar applications, the creation date of a given text document, image, audio, video, etc.

In Dolphin, we usually find the Modified column , to which we can also add the Accessed column and even the Created column (which for now still displays a pristine white).

That will change with the release of KDE Frameworks 5.58 in mid-May. It will no longer be necessary to use the terminal and search through inodes to access a file's creation date. The good old `stat` command :

[jose@replicante Documentos]$ stat archivo.ods

Fichero: archivo.ods

Tamaño: 10483         Bloques: 24         Bloque E/S: 4096   fichero regular

Dispositivo: 807h/2055d Nodo-i: 16815664    Enlaces: 1

Acceso: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/    jose)   Gid: (  100/   users)

Acceso: 2019-04-15 10:41:16.516415434 +0200

Modificación: 2016-09-13 19:39:29.812419867 +0200

Cambio: 2017-02-14 00:44:56.470872122 +0100

Creación: 2016-08-09 14:44:44.989457790 +0200

Now that column will be full of information, thanks to the statx function (the evolution of stat, so to speak). It's currently compatible with current versions of glibc (>= 2.28), the C library from the GNU project that provides various APIs and system calls.

These capabilities, already implemented in the kernel (since Linux 4.11 ) and the most common file systems in GNU/Linux, such as ext4 and Btrfs , are now reaching the user's commonly used programs.

As a result, we will have an even more appealing KDE desktop , for both new and old users, capable of providing more complete and specific information.

You can find more information about this news and the week-by-week development of the KDE project on Nate Graham's blog . Interesting news that is also regularly covered by our friend Victorhck in the free world .

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