Feature Request: Favourites menu

[wiz0u]

In addition to the Recent Files, add a Favourites menu that maintain a user list of files for quick opening.

I imagine two commands on top "Add current file", and "Remove from favourite..." (with a dialog box for selection), then a separator and the list of files.

If you don't want to display the full path of files here, you can shorten the display name to <last_directory_name>\<filename> that should be sufficient for most usage.
Also, sort the files by their display name.

Thanks :)

[wiz0u]

Related: maybe add an option somewhere to define the number of entries for "Recent files" (currently fixed at 5 ?)

[variar]

Thanks for suggestions. With your help klogg is improving :) I'll look into this.

[wiz0u]

Please consider increasing the priority for this Feature Request.
In my opinion this is the main lacking feature for klogg right now.
(it is so annoying having to navigate to each of the file I want to open everyday, even though they have a fixed network path and I don't want them always opened in klogg)

[wiz0u]

If you need to shorten a path for display, actually using an ellipsis in the middle is probably a better approach (\\network\path\...\to\file) than what I suggested in my initial post

[variar]

Somewhat done in 19.12.0.532. Dialog to remove from favorites is very basic but will be improved in future versions.

[variar]

Need to use native path separators

[wiz0u]

Somewhat done in 19.12.0.532. Dialog to remove from favorites is very basic but will be improved in future versions.

Neat !! Many thanks !!

Idea: The 'Remove' combobox could pre-select the current file if current tab is one of the favourites

Also see my suggestion above about ellipsis (so that it shows a bit of the beginning of the path also, in case the path/name is the same but on different network machines)

[wiz0u]

Oh, I just noticed the 'star' button to add/remove current file to favorites... Nice too :)

[variar]

Added pre-selection and ellipsis. Thanks for ideas to improve klogg user expirience!

[wiz0u]

Ellipsis truncation seems not working correctly (not truncating or repeating parts) :

Also the tooltip and Remove dialog still uses forward slash instead of native path separator

[wiz0u]

I would recommend the following algorithm for ellipsis truncation:
If path is longer than 64 characters, and composed of more than 5 "words" (including drive letter, network machine name, folder name, or file name), keep the first two and the last two, and put "..." in the middle (keeping the backward/forward slashes, colon or double-slashes separators as-is)

Note that it would mean the above two examples in my screenshot should not be truncated (and I'm fine with it)

Happy end of year festivities!

[variar]

Thanks for algorithm idea, will look into it. Implemented simplier version for now in 19.12.0.540

[wiz0u]

Other problems are fixed now.

For truncation, as an example, I would expect
R:\MMTools\...\20181010\1605.xml or R:\MMTools\PCAL\...\20181010\1605.xml
for the following:

(showing the name of the parent directory is important)

[variar]

Moved truncation to separate issue for future consideration

[variar]

Part of nickbnf#147