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[FEATURE] are you able to implement a shortcut folder feature? #393

Open Faststreamer246 opened 2 months ago

Faststreamer246 commented 2 months ago

Feature

Hi, In Fen there is a shortcut folder manager allowing us to make a shortcut folder with anything inside and then use that as a widget by for example making a stacked widget pointing to the folder. It is a neat feature but not a deal breaker so if it is too much trouble to add then totally fine. I've used umbrella since it released and would rather stick with it than move over to Fen as it has a few things I like. Of course that is personal preference. The feature in Fen can be found in tools and then shortcut folder manager.

Thanks for your consideration.

Faststreamer246 commented 2 months ago

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umbrellaplug commented 2 months ago

I took some time to look into this request. I love the concept. The developer of Fen does some amazing stuff in his addon. This is one of those things. I'm interested in implementing something like this, but this is a large job for Umbrella. Fen has an entire custom menu system already which allows for re-ordering, adding, and removing from the menus within the addon. Umbrella is written with static menu systems for most of the addon. At this time, this is not something I can quickly do. I will begin the process of working towards coding the addon for dynamic menus vs static though.

Faststreamer246 commented 2 months ago

Thanks so much for taking the time to consider this. I really appreciate that. I'm glad that you also think this is a good feature. I definitely think it would make Umbrella even better than it already is as it opens up a lot of customisation for the user but I now recognise that this is a big task. But if you are able to begin moving over to dynamic menus overtime I have no doubt that you will be able to create a wonderful feature and I'll be ready to test it out if needed! All I really played around with in Fen was adding some menu items to a shortcut folder to have my own stacked widget but from what you have said I can now see there are even more possibilities down the line. Thanks a lot

Mahava commented 1 month ago

I took some time to look into this request. I love the concept. The developer of Fen does some amazing stuff in his addon. This is one of those things. I'm interested in implementing something like this, but this is a large job for Umbrella. Fen has an entire custom menu system already which allows for re-ordering, adding, and removing from the menus within the addon. Umbrella is written with static menu systems for most of the addon. At this time, this is not something I can quickly do. I will begin the process of working towards coding the addon for dynamic menus vs static though.

There's something similar in Movie Database Helper, but it's called 'nodes'. In that addon, there is a folder called 'nodes' that contains .json files that can be manually edited; however, on Fn I couldn't find a way to manually edit its shortcut files - if they exist. That means that I can't add shortcuts that point to other addons and must add and remove items within Fn only. I imagine that this is what the developer intended. It's really nice to be able to manually edit the way MDBHelper implements it.