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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000124 | VisualDiffer | General | public | 2012-08-05 10:38 | 2013-04-12 08:11 |
| Reporter | evolution | Assigned To | admin | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | Mac | OS | OS X | OS Version | 10.8 |
| Product Version | 1.4.3 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 1.5.2 | ||||
| Summary | 0000124: Packages should be differentiated from folders in GUI | ||||
| Description | Technically, packages are folders, but from a GUI standpoint for the end user, they are meant to be undifferentiated from files. Regular end-users are not meant to look inside, or to even know a package content is granular. So I suggest 2 things: 1- Some GUI artifacts to differentiate packages from ordinary folders. 2- A way to hide their content. That seems just like a filter, but not readily feasible with existing GUI because we can only filter by file name extensions (as far as I know, a package is not determined by its extension). If we could somehow filter the content of a package out of view, it would appear just like a file to the user. Not so simple however, because a filter currently prevents processing as well, and a package content must be processed to determine whether the whole thing is "same" or "different" (using dates would be tricky because it could potentially be a mixture of older an newer). As far as copying, when in this mode of hiding the content, user could not pick and choose partial content to copy, and that would be fine because compatible with the end-user paradigm: "package = file". So hiding out package content seems tricky, but some GUI artifact to differentiate would be welcome. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I would study how other apps resolve this problem, I will try to look at pathfinder or trasmit. Hide the content sounds a bit more complicated but something can be done, I have in version 1.4.6 or 1.4.7 to implement some solution. Any progress and decision will be posted here |
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UI doesn't change for packages but now it is possible to skip them from folder traversal |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-05 10:38 | evolution | New Issue | |
| 2012-08-05 10:38 | evolution | Status | new => assigned |
| 2012-08-05 10:38 | evolution | Assigned To | => admin |
| 2012-08-05 12:19 | admin | Note Added: 0000149 | |
| 2013-03-16 10:09 | admin | Note Added: 0000241 | |
| 2013-03-16 10:09 | admin | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2013-03-16 10:09 | admin | Fixed in Version | => 1.5.2 |
| 2013-04-12 08:11 | admin | Status | resolved => closed |
| 2013-04-12 08:11 | admin | Resolution | open => fixed |
