Re: File system browser columns

Hi Roman,

I do use favorites, but don't expand them: only select one from the
favorites drop-down.

Cheers,

Le Thu, 9 Nov 2017 14:26:39 +0300,
Roman Tsourick <[email protected]> a écrit :

> 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.
> >

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