Yet another favorites issue - showing subfolders

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Yet another favorites issue - showing subfolders

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Today seems to be the day for them, eh? (I just found out xnview even has favorites.) It seems to really center around the idea of a folder being self-contained, no subfolders.

Anyway, the request is to show the expando-icon for any folders that have subs, like the normal treeview, without having to expand them first. It's not immediately obvious which favorites even have subfolders.

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+1 :)
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Post by robc »

Me, too; notice also that while the normal treeview does not show hidden folders, the favorite tree does, which looks like a bug ;-)
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Re: Yet another favorites issue - showing subfolders

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foxyshadis wrote:Today seems to be the day for them, eh? (I just found out xnview even has favorites.) It seems to really center around the idea of a folder being self-contained, no subfolders.

Anyway, the request is to show the expando-icon for any folders that have subs, like the normal treeview, without having to expand them first. It's not immediately obvious which favorites even have subfolders.
I'm not sure it will be good to check for all favorites for subfolders...
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Re: Yet another favorites issue - showing subfolders

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xnview wrote:I'm not sure it will be good to check for all favorites for subfolders...
From a UI point of view: Favourites are a shortcut to often used folders, which are folders, hence they shall behave like folders. Consequently, they shall show whether they contain subfolders. At least I consider it to be a bug when i know "fav a contains subfolders" but I get no indication.

From a performance point of view: First listing the favourites themselves. When they're done, scan their content in two concurrent threads: one reads the files and shows thumbnails of the currently selected fav. The other crawls all favs for direct subfolders (file mask: +d, so the OS only returns dirs and ignores files), so breadth first, and adds the corresponding icon (+ or not) in front of the folder name. This means the user can use the current dir instantly but gets the information after a few secs.

Other thoughts? /Georg
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Post by robc »

The way Favorites work in B3 looks good to me; the issue with hidden folders I pointed out above is still there, though, which is a pity.

On another note: is it possible to have XnView start with the tree pane on Favourites instead of Folders? if it's not, then I believe it would be a nice option to add.
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Post by marsh »

robc wrote:Me, too; notice also that while the normal treeview does not show hidden folders, the favorite tree does, which looks like a bug ;-)
It appears in folder tree, but not in favourites. It looks like a bug to me also.
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It appears in the Favourites View of the folder tree pane, to be correct ;-)
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Re: Yet another favorites issue - showing subfolders

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xnview wrote:
foxyshadis wrote:Today seems to be the day for them, eh? (I just found out xnview even has favorites.) It seems to really center around the idea of a folder being self-contained, no subfolders.

Anyway, the request is to show the expando-icon for any folders that have subs, like the normal treeview, without having to expand them first. It's not immediately obvious which favorites even have subfolders.
I'm not sure it will be good to check for all favorites for subfolders...
Me neither. I can't see how it matters anyway. The scanning needed is just useless work for the PC IMHO.
Get the bugs fixed, THEN start adding features. It sucks, but someone has to do it.
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