| Summary: | "Group by series" unflattens filesystem hierarchy, making it difficult to find anything | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] peruse | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | remggovw |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450845 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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| Attachments: | How the filesystem organization is displayed | ||
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Description
Nate Graham
2022-02-25 20:43:33 UTC
Ohh I see, "Group by series" does this, but it unflattens the hierarchy, so all the folders are displayed as if they share the same parent item, even if they don't. This seems sub-optimal. It's also not what I would expect "group by series" to do. Created attachment 147126 [details]
How the filesystem organization is displayed
All of these folders live in different places, and some are even inside other ones, but they are all presented as a flatttened alphabetized grid.
This behavior of series is intended as far as I see. This is for structures where you have multiple comics of the same series in one folder. E.g.: $ tree All-New* All-New\ Hawkeye\ (2015) |-- All-New_Hawkeye_2015_1.cbz `-- All-New_Hawkeye_2015_6.cbz All-New\ Ultimates\ (2014) |-- All-New_Ultimates_2014_1.cbz `-- All-New,_All-Different_Avengers_2015_9.cbz This helps if the Comic Book Archives do not have any metadata embedded describing the comic. What you are suggesting would be a folder browser in peruse. In general I would like a folder browser, but that is a new feature, as the "Group by series" works as intended. The code for adding the folder as a series is here: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/peruse/-/blob/master/src/qtquick/BookListModel.cpp#L244 However, what I think is a problem with this feature is that the folder name gets added as series even if the comic book has the appropriate series information. > What you are suggesting would be a folder browser in peruse. Indeed, I think that is what I want. My books are all organized by filesystem and don't generally have correct metadata, so any of these views that organize by extracted metadata don't really work for me. There is a "Filter by folder" view but it doesn't really seem to work the way I would expect. See Bug 450845. |