feature request: Provide Information about source/ paths in the restore Window

[goebbe]

Testing vykar-gui 0.12.8 on Linux.

Short version:
In the restore window, it would be great if the corresponding source (path) could be displayed next to the sources folders.

Detailed version:
When using several paths: under sources: as in the following example it is currently not possible to see the source (paths) in the restore window.

Example config:

sources:
  - label: home
    paths:
      - /home/goebbe
      - /home/goebbe/.mozilla/firefox/qhk9580s/bookmarkbackups
      - /home/goebbe/.config/systemd/user
      - /home/goebbe/.thunderbird

When selecting a snapshot to restore in vykar-gui, the following view is displays:
In this view, the information about the sources: and path: is missing.
From looking at the restore window, it is unclear, from which sources: paths: the displayed folders are coming from.

Independent of the described case, I believe it would be a nice if the information about the source (paths) would always be displayed in the restore window. (even with a single source)

[m3nu]

True. It should find the common path and start from there for all source folders.

[goebbe]

Perhaps just displaying something similar to the Source column, from the snapshot-tab of the main window?
But perhaps there are different/ better ways in the restore context?

[goebbe]

Another tiny inconsistency:

• If there is only one path in sources: The last folder of the path is currently NOT shown in the restore window
• If there are several paths in sources: Each subtree starts with the last folder of the path.

For reasons of consistency, the latest folder could always be displayed as a start of the snapshot.

One path:

Source/path:	Snapshot:	type
/home/goebbe	➡️ goebbe	dir

One path, expandet:

Source/path:	Snapshot:	type
/home/goebbe	⬇️ goebbe	dir
/home/goebbe	➡️ goebbe/Documents	dir
/home/goebbe	➡️ goebbe/Pictures	dir
/home/goebbe	testfile.txt	file
/home/goebbe	homefile.md	file

Several paths:

Source/path:	Snapshot:	type
/home/goebbe	➡️ goebbe	dir
/home/goebbe/.thunderbird	➡️ .thunderbird	dir
/home/other	➡️ other	dir

Several paths, expanded:

Source/path:	Snapshot:	type
/home/goebbe	⬇️ goebbe	dir
/home/goebbe	➡️ goebbe/Documents	dir
/home/goebbe	➡️ goebbe/Pictures	dir
/home/goebbe	testfile.txt	file
/home/goebbe	homefile.md	file
/home/goebbe/.thunderbird	➡️ .thunderbird	dir
/home/other	➡️ other	dir

[m3nu]

Folders in the restore view are now grouped by their common absolute paths (if any). Or the full path, if they are different. Like /home/blah/documents and /var/lib/postgres.

[goebbe]

@m3nu Sorry for coming back to this.
I am not sure it this change will solve the reported issue.

If, for example, a user has the following configuration for sources:

sources:
  - label: config-folders
    paths:
      - /home/user/config
      - /home/user/.config/app1/config
      - /home/user/.local/apps/app2/config
      - /home/user/.bin/app3/config

How would this be displayed in the "restore window"?
The restore window would display:

> config      dir
> config      dir
> config      dir
> config      dir

Which would not be very helpful, since there is no good way to tell which config folder belongs to which source/path.
How would a user quickly decide which of the config folders should be restored?

It would be great if there would be a new column that displays the Source.
This would be identical to "Source" in the "Snapshot" tab of main windows of vykar-gui (where Source/path is displayed):
Something like:

/home/user/config                   > config         dir
/home/user/.config/app1/config      > config         dir
/home/user/.local/apps/app2/config  > config         dir
/home/user/.bin/app3/config         > config         dir

or integrate the source path directly?

> /home/user/config                            dir
> /home/user/.config/app1/config               dir
> /home/user/.local/apps/app2/config           dir
> /home/user/.bin/app3/config                  dir

The main difference would be that the Sourc/path is visible.

[m3nu]

It would show this. Those are 3 folders + the root.

> user/config                            dir
> user/.config/app1/config               dir
> user/.local/apps/app2/config           dir
> user/.bin/app3/config                  dir

[m3nu]

Best you try the actual release and then we see. To me it looked fine with different folders and folder levels.

[goebbe]

Thank you for commenting.
So I guess the changes are not fully visible from the screenshot.
I will check the next build and repot back, here. Sorry for the noise.