Allow independent parent folder selection in subfolder visibility

[luginf]

Expected behaviour

Users should be able to choose any folder they want, regardless of their hierarchy.

Actual behaviour

if the directory structure is:

myfolder
..subfolder1
..subfolder2

I can uncheck subfolder1 and it will show the content of myfolder and subfolder2, but if there is only one subfolder like this:

myfolder
..subfolder1

if I unckeck subfolder1 then myfolder goes unchecked as well and I don't get the content of myfolder.

Even the first example is not ideal. Suppose again I have this structure:

myfolder
..subfolder1
..subfolder2

and I want only to show the content of subfolder1 and subfolder2, but NOT myfolder, if nothing was check whenever I check subfolder1 myfolder gets greyed like this:

and when I check subfolder2 then myfolder is fully selected. I don't want it!

and if I uncheck myfolder, then subfolder1 and subfolder2 gets unchecked as well!

I understand the mechanism of "select top folder and it will select all subfolders as well" to make it quicker for the users to be able to check all and uncheck what they don't want, but it has its drawbacks as well.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. create the folders and subfolders like above
2. uncheck both subfolders
3. the content of the first level folder is not shown

[pbek]

I think you are not describing a bug. You are describing a feature you want to have.

It is currently not possible to unselect the root folder of a sub-sub-folder. Is that what you are describing?

The reason that's not possible is, because you cannot hide the root folder of a subfolder. You also cannot do that in e.g. the Nextcloud Desktop client. As soon as you select any folder in Nextcloud Desktop, the parents will be added too.

[pbek]

Or are you talking about not being able to select a parent folder alone when you don't want to select its children folder? Because that's a feature that makes sense.

[luginf]

Or are you talking about not being able to select a parent folder alone when you don't want to select its children folder? Because that's a feature that makes sense.

Yes, this. I wasn't talking about the root folder specifically, it's the same with a sub subfolder, like this:

Here this lists the content of subfolder01:

Now if I uncheck subsubfolder02, without touching the checkbox of subfolder01, the content of subfolder01 is no longer listed

[pbek]

26.5.6

• Note folder Subfolder visibility selections now keep parent folders
  selected with a partial check state when some or all subfolders are unchecked
  individually, while checking a parent still selects its subfolders (for #3602)

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[luginf]

you've awesome!

So far it looks working well. I'll test it more on my main computer in a few days and I'll tell you..