FilePicker: Automatic discovery of ARK-enabled folders

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Reusable components for the ARK project

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Open kirillt opened 8 months ago

kirillt commented 8 months ago

Context:

User may sync or copy manually an ARK-enabled folder from another device. The synced folder should magically appear in "Roots" tab of the filepicker.

User may:

already have .ark-roots file in the filesystem
be not aware of what is ARK-enabled folder or if it contains hidden .ark subfolder
have only one app of ARK family, e.g. Retouch or Shelf

How to solve this? Scanning the whole filesystem every time doesn't look reasonable. Is it ok to do it in background?

kirillt commented 8 months ago

Roots scanning was implemented within the scope of this issue: