[Wishlist] Merge treebrowser plugin and file browser.

[sagarchalise]

It would make sense to give tree browsing option in current file browser plugin. It seems treebrowser plugin currently doesnot have maintainer so it may be possible to merge these two plugins.

[elextr]

They are different use-cases, filebrowser is to find files to use in Geany, treebrowser is a second rate file manager that will never be as useful as the system provided one, in other words it doesn't have a use-case, learn to use your system properly </rant> :)

In case you didn't catch the drift, I don't favour integrating it.

[vfaronov]

@elextr

treebrowser is a second rate file manager

Or you could ignore its file management features and use it to... you know... find files to use in Geany

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​Well then it doesn't add anything to the core `filebrowser` plugin, so no merge is needed.​

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[vfaronov]

@elextr

Well then it doesn't add anything to the core filebrowser

Um, the tree thing?

Files in a project are very often spread over multiple directories. It’s very convenient to have them all accessible at the same time. (Especially with #1466.)

[elextr]

@vfaronov sounds like you want to take over the maintainership of treebrowser (he says hopefully) ;-D

Just post a PR on G-P changing the maintainers list.

Then you can apply #1466 to it too.

[sagarchalise]

@elextr I still think a list view option for file browsing would be nice to have in inbuilt plugin. Indeed treebrowser and filebrowser may have different use case.

[elextr]

@sagarchalise yes I believe they have different use-cases, and its my opinion that the file manager part of tree browser is inappropriate for a plugin in an IDE. If it was part of a refactoring plugin it would make sense, but not simply for file management.

If it was just a browser as its name says, it would still fit the use-case of @vfaronov of having many directories visible at the same time, and in that role could replace file browser so there is not a confusing proliferation of core plugins. But it should be developed in that role within G-P until shown to be safe and reliable, not moved to core as an unmaintained unknown quantity.

Also if it was moved to core #1414 would need to be updated to include it.

[codebrainz]

It would be nice to have something like SublimeText has which integrates both the (IMO useless) Documents tab as well as a basic File Browser built-in (to replace Documents tab). It's super handy to have basic file browser/management integrated into the development environment to quickly re-arrange and rename files without doing a full context switch into the desktop's (usually lousy) file manager.

I +1 any effort to do this as I would use it heavily, and if the fact that every other IDE has it builtin is any indication, so would a lot of other people.

[vfaronov]

@codebrainz

I +1 any effort to do this as I would use it heavily

Just to clarify: why do you not use TreeBrowser right now?

[codebrainz]

@vfaronov I usually use ProjectOrganizer which provides some of that functionality (though not nearly enough, IMO). Since the sidebar can only have one thing visible at a time, I usually only keep one plugin loaded which uses the sidebar at a time, and just live with the 2000px of wasted space on the left of Geany.