Feature: Top Level view or Tree view

[kenbankspeng]

Feature Suggestion

Mandatory Information

Description Cork provides a flat 'brew list' view of the installed packages. This certainly is needed. But I suggest users are most interested in the top level packages they installed. The sub-packages that were installed as part of the formula are just technical details.

Consider a simple Top Level view filter, or even better, a Tree view.

1) Top Level view This is just a filter selection to only view the top level packages (leaves) in your flat package view. cli equivalent: brew leaves | xargs brew list --versions

2) Tree view This would show the packages in a tree hierarchy similar to a folder/file tree. Users could drill into the sub-package details as needed. cli equivalent: brew deps --tree --installed

Type UI

Mockups No

[kenbankspeng]

I now see you have a setting to view all packages or only manually installed. I suggest this be a filter button in the UI either embedded within your search box component or placed right beside it.

The Tree view would be the ultimate, but would take more work.

[buresdv]

Thanks for the idea. The filtering of packages installed intentionally using a search filter is already implemented, but the search filters don't show up due to a SwiftUI bug caused by Apple. See #191, which tracks this problem.

The tree view is currently way above my programming abilities, but I might revisit it in the future

[mrvincenzo]

Show leaves as @kenbankspeng suggested would be great. Personally, I care about the top level dependencies installed (brew leaves). I care less about the dependencies of my leaves' dependencies I installed. Also, showing all formulaes is not optimal as the user can try to uninstall a dependency of a leaf dependency, which will result in broken leaf dependency.

[buresdv]

@mrvincenzo how relevant is this issue for you? #247

[mrvincenzo]

@mrvincenzo how relevant is this issue for you? #247

It is close but it shows more formulaes than i see when running brew leaves, formalaes that i didn't installed directly

[buresdv]

brew leaves actually tends to leave some packages out from a ton of testing I did back when this feature was first implemented. Cork checks the metadata of the package directly, so it tends to be more accurate on average.

It only becomes a bigger problem if you manually modify a package that you haven't installed manually. At that point, it start being considered "manually modified", which gives it the same status as other packages you installed manually.