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Delete Selected Folder in Tree
macmore:
I have a folder selected in the Tree. When I press Delete, nothing happens. Do I need to set a configuration option to allow deleting items in a tree?
Mathias (Author):
Delete is not possible from the tree side.
Ockham:
With respect, this is very poor answer. It is very unusual to find such basic and commonly implemented option missing in a file manager. There is also GUI problem: selecting a folder in tree view does not disable a button "Delete (F8)" and popup help "Delete files of folders" is still present.
Windows Explorer allows this, other two tools I am currently evaluating: XYPlorer and FreeCommander XE also allow this operation. I may be wrong, but from memory I do not remember any other file manager (and I used many) which would have such basic flaw.
Why is it not implemented? The product appears to be mature (ver. 4.1). Some better explanation is needed here. Is it going to be fixed? This is definitely NOT a feature or a logical design decision, it is crippling lack of basic functionality commonly implemented in other similar tools.
Mathias (Author):
--- Quote from: Ockham on March 11, 2014, 22:25:34 ---With respect, this is very poor answer. It is very unusual to find such basic and commonly implemented option missing in a file manager.
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Might be an answer you did not like. But it does not change the fact that it is not currently possible.
MC is primary built to be used as a dual panel, Commander style file manager, and a folder tree is not used very often in that setup (since the tree view often is navigated with mouse and in commander mode you are often not using that.)
So the folder tree has not been a priority, It is planned to add it. But it is not as easy to do as one might think. There are some technical issue with it and that require a bit of work (You have delete from the context menu in the FolderTree, But you will see some refresh issues, This is part of the issues )
Also other issues have had higher priority. But it is on the todo list.
--- Quote from: Ockham on March 11, 2014, 22:25:34 ---There is also GUI problem: selecting a folder in tree view does not disable a button "Delete (F8)" and popup help "Delete files of folders" is still present.
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That is because the button panel are not context sensitive. they are just buttons that you can assign whatever to.
--- Quote from: Ockham on March 11, 2014, 22:25:34 ---Windows Explorer allows this, other two tools I am currently evaluating: XYPlorer and FreeCommander XE also allow this operation. I may be wrong, but from memory I do not remember any other file manager (and I used many) which would have such basic flaw.
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MC is not build using the slow Windows Shell interface that a lot of others are using. MC shows the file system as it really is.
MC is also built in a very different way, everything in MC is a extension/plugin, that makes it easier to add new features but will make some other things harder.
And as a said. MC was first built to be used in commander style setup first and did not even have a tree view since that is not even used there.
--- Quote from: Ockham on March 11, 2014, 22:25:34 ---Why is it not implemented? The product appears to be mature (ver. 4.1). Some better explanation is needed here. Is it going to be fixed? This is definitely NOT a feature or a logical design decision, it is crippling lack of basic functionality commonly implemented in other similar tools.
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Because not everything can be fixed at once, MC is free so there is very limited resources, I do not have a whole team of devs that works 24/7.
Also not many uses the FolderTree most users run MC in CommanderStyled mode and other issues have been more impotent to fix.
But it is on the list, and will be fixed.
It have not been categories as a major flaw since you can still delete, just go up one level and delete from the list part.
ice-man:
the Folder Tree view, people really use that ?
I find it so very very unpractical and slow to use that.
But I guess if you are a mouse person you don't mind that.
For example if I want to go up two levels in the filesystem I just press the backspace key twice. I do not have to reach the mouse and position the mouse pointer correct and click.
But we are all different. And the nice part with MC is that it also allows mouse folks to use it. And I'm fine with that as long as the keyboard style does not gets crippled by it.
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