Feature to deselect individual items in preview results

[bendover22]

I don't see a way to remove / protect individual items from preview results from being cleaned, other than uncheck a whole category and re-run entire preview. Unchecking an entire category isn't always desirable.

Is it possible to add ability to right click a preview results item & "remove from cleaning list" or "don't clean this item," etc? Lots of apps have this sort of feature. That might be easier to implement than adding check boxes beside each preview item to select / deselect items.

I imagine it's very common to want to protect 1 or 2 items in category results.

If items are deselected / protected, they could be grayed out and / or italicized or change background color to show they're protected from cleaning.

Some apps use check marks, 'X's' to indicate selected and deselected list items, but that may be more work than graying out, italicizing, etc.

Note: green & red colors, alone, are difficult for color blind persons to see.

[ROCKNROLLKID]

Good idea. The next major BleachBit update, we had plans to change to GTK 3, which should change a lot of the UI/GUI around. For now, you can just exclude the file in BleachBit settings, under whitelist.

[bendover22]

I checked on that. Unfortunately, you can't copy / paste preview results you want exempted to the whitelist (items you weren't expecting it would find). For several items, that turns into work.

If you know items ahead of time to always exclude, entering them once in the whitelist isn't too bad. Unless there's a lot.

In Linux Mint 18.1 / Cinnamon, the best that BB would allow for "faster" whitelisting items off of Preview results, was highlighting only the path part of a Preview result, then "Add Item" in the whitelist. That opens the system's default file manager, where (in Nemo & some others) you can paste a path just copied into the file mgr's location bar.

Then BB allows adding that path (if exists) from the file mgr to the whitelist. This isn't a lot faster than typing it, except for long paths.

Neither do I see a way to select multiple items from BB's Preview results & enter in the whitelist. The BB "add file or folder to whitelist" GUI, nor the file mgr allow entering multiple paths, say comma separated or one item per line, etc.

[ROCKNROLLKID]

Yes, we have been wanting to change the GUI for awhile. I am not a programmer and the only person working on BB full time is Andrew, so you will need to be patient for such feature. It is a good idea, nonetheless.

[tstenner]

Maybe we should convert the resultbox from a textbox to something else with two levels for individual cleaners and a sublist of files each cleaner cleans. That way we could let someone select individual files and offer to add them to the whitelist in the context menu

[az0]

Transfer to https://github.com/bleachbit/wishlist

[gqqnbig]

Any progress on this issue?

I love bleachbit being open source, but the way it selects/deselects fies is bizarre. I expect a checkbox list where I want uncheck files to be deleted.

[az0]

You're right that this and (other GUI improvements) would be helpful, but before many GUI changes, though, a major problem to solve is modernizing the Python+GTK frameworks on Windows. Thank you for your patience.

For now, I will mark this with a high priority label.