Re: File system browser columns

Any ideas? Is anybody using favourites? Those who are do you expand your
items right from the favourites list? Is there anyone who is bothered by
these columns? I would like to fix that but do not want to break anyone's
experience (quite poor I believe as it is practically unusable).

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Roman Tsourick <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> There is a feature request I would +1, columns customization. But now it
> is not possible due to the nature of the table of files/items. And this is
> why (for those who is not aware including me):
>
> The browser uses virtual file system layer to deal with files/items and
> supports a number of those: "filefs" "urlfs" "roots" "favourites" at least.
> The grid does not distinguish between them but mixes altogether on demand.
> On every openning of a directory a particular vfs is given and table model
> asks that fs for attriutes the fs supports. Every attribute becomes a
> column in the table (like type, size, last modified). Those attributes
> (columns) are not replaced but new ones added to existing list. So we can
> not have a defined column set for every fs, but the resulting list is
> unpredictable by nature.
>
> This mechanism makes possible a nice facility you can see if you have any
> items in your favourites. Add directory to favourites, open favourites
> (favourites fs is loaded, which has two columns), click on the plus sign to
> expand that dir and what happens is that a new fs queried and its
> attributes added as columns to existing ones.
>
> I wonder is this feature actually used/necessary? Would it be better
> prevent FSs from mixing and have separated column sets? (In case of
> favourites it could just add new items to the list so expansion still
> possible but not adding new columns)
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Roman.
>
> mailto: [email protected]
>



-- 
Best regards,
Roman.

mailto: [email protected]

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