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Fix T90317: Confusing File Browser Preferences
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Authored by Harley Acheson (harley) on Sep 9 2021, 1:18 AM.

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Preferences / File Browser section made less confusing.


With T90317 the user did not find the filtering options within the File Browser itself. But he did find some setting for it in Preferences:

This section is confusing because it is not clear that these are defaults used for the next time the File Browser is launched. The user thought this would affect the display immediately. Further the awkward negatives make it worse, having to add a checkmark to turn on the hiding of something. And the mention of "dot files" does not generically apply to other operating systems, since this does not affect such files on Windows, just those with hidden file attributes.

This patch makes it look like the following:

It is clear that these are defaults and the items are less awkward.

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Harley Acheson (harley) requested review of this revision.Sep 9 2021, 1:18 AM
Harley Acheson (harley) created this revision.
Harley Acheson (harley) edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) requested changes to this revision.Sep 9 2021, 4:41 AM

The hide_* properties should be removed, otherwise this patch LGTM.

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Sep 9 2021, 4:41 AM

Updating to incorporate changes requested by review.

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Sep 9 2021, 6:51 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.
This comment was removed by Julian Eisel (Severin).

@Harley Acheson (harley) do you think show-show-show should be repeated three times?