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[PR] Disable Automatic Folder Discovery #1049

Closed the-P1neapple closed 8 months ago

the-P1neapple commented 8 months ago

Questions

Describe your pull request

This is a patch based on the Shell Bags Registry which is in charge of custom view properties when loading a folder. Disabling this has potential to speed up indexing on older hard drives by preventing automatic view changes based on the content present in the folder.

Xyueta commented 8 months ago

looks good to me

he3als commented 8 months ago

Automatic folder discovery is useful for selecting certain views in Explorer, such as your 'Pictures' folder being set to thumbnail/icon view by default.

Disabling it by default can annoy some users, including me when I used to use this tweak.

To disable it by default, it would be best to have a good confirmation of how this speeds up Explorer first. Additionally, there should be Optional Tweaks Registry files to toggle the feature.

Xyueta commented 8 months ago

https://twitter.com/unitycoder_com/status/1764550045070721212

the-P1neapple commented 8 months ago

https://twitter.com/unitycoder_com/status/1764550045070721212

I originally found out about this tweak from Endermanch in his telegram but I didn't realise it was this effective. @he3als do you want me to still want me to put this in optional tweaks or in the main configuration folder?

he3als commented 8 months ago

In that case, it can be disabled by default then as a performance over QoL tweak

the-P1neapple commented 8 months ago

Sorry I thought when you said 'disabled by default' you didn't want the tweak to run by default. This should be good now.