What the hell is "Select all Shiny" ?

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What the hell is "Select all Shiny" ? #501

Open slimjet4u opened 1 month ago

slimjet4u commented 1 month ago

I was trying out the Customization sync, and say this phrase "Select all Shiny" what does this mean. What is the use case when the files are same. It hinders the way for "Apply all selected" as those also get applied which are all the same. This gets weirder when it is done for all the plugins. Why select it when all are the same ??

Isn't this inefficient sync ??

vrtmrz commented 1 month ago

Thank you for opening the issue!

"Select all Shiny"

This button allows us to choose all files which have the newest modified time in each group. The use case is straightforward when we want to apply the newest changes to the current device.

Simply Newer things are chosen. And, why we do not filter Newer but the Same out is for the plug-in which cares about the modified time.

However, I am not sure about the behaviour which you pointed out -- everything the same is selected. It should not be selected.

Would you mind if I ask you to check the following things?

Are these things still selected If you tap Deselect all once and tap Select all shiny? Are all of your things selected? Or, some specifics are always selected?
Would you mind sharing the report? (We can make it in the Hatch pane).

kylek29 commented 1 week ago

I came here looking for that explanation. This dialog might benefit from some QoL clean-up. "Shiny" seems like it maybe a technical jargon that many do not know (I assume the term shiny means "newer")?

Some possible UI suggestions:

Button/Checkbox Filter (to hide/show) All w/ Time Difference
Button/Checkbox Filter (to hide/show) All w/ Content Difference
Add a tooltip or descriptive box to dialog that explains the different selector buttons (e.g. Select All Shiny), Maintenance Mode, and the other user-selecting options (such as the 4-options for the individual files like Automatic, Selective, Flagged-Selective, etc.).

There's a "Hide Not-Applicable Items" checkbox, but that seems to be very selective, and only hides the elements that are both equal in timestamp and content (?), which is very little with so many plugins since many seem to alter a file timestamp on Obsidian launch.