Feature request: File tree

ImmanuelSamuel commented 8 years ago

Right now for quickly viewing all the files in a directory with many sub directories takes a lot of time.

With a tree like this it will be much easier.

bkarlovitz commented 8 years ago

I'm interested in working on this. Has anyone made progress?

takluyver commented 8 years ago

I don't think anything has been done on this, but it's a UI question rather than just code, so I'd ping someone like @ellisonbg about it before you dive in.

bkarlovitz commented 8 years ago

@takluyver Sounds good. I'll wait to hear more.

ellisonbg commented 8 years ago

A couple of thoughts:

In the short/medium term:

Getting a full tree based file brower right from the design and interaction standpoint is extremely difficult and time consuming.
We are already building a brand new file newer for JupyterLab that has many more features than the current one. The idea is that it would eventually replace the existing dashboard.
I don't think we have the capacity to have 3 file browsers in the pipeline at the same time.
My own feeling is that tree-based file browsers are more complex for users.
But, It would be possible for a third party to build a tree-based file browser as a 4.x nbextension or JupyterLab plugin that is a separate project that users can install and use.

In the long run:

Eventually, after the existing dashboard file browser has gone away, we may have capacity to tackle a more full blown tree view.
In some cases, tree-based file browsers work better.
A nice balance is the one in Google Drive, which by default is flat (like ours), but still has a tree based view that sits along side of the flat one.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Bryan Karlovitz notifications@github.com wrote:

@takluyver https://github.com/takluyver Sounds good. I'll wait to hear more.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/1058#issuecomment-186662609.

Brian E. Granger Associate Professor of Physics and Data Science Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub bgranger@calpoly.edu and ellisonbg@gmail.com

bkarlovitz commented 8 years ago

@ellisonbg Thanks for the detailed feedback. I'm inclined to go the nbextension route here. I'll keep everyone posted.

JamiesHQ commented 7 years ago

@bkarlovitz : We're doing a little housekeeping on our issue log and noticed this thread from 2016. Were you able to looking into the nbextension route? Please let us know if this issue been resolved to your satisfaction and can it be closed?

@bkarlovitz @ImmanuelSamuel : You may be interested in the file browser in JupyterLab to see if it meets your needs. thanks!

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Feature request: File tree #1058