Undo History : enhancing the available actions

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meteorquake
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Undo History : enhancing the available actions

Post by meteorquake »

A few suggestions for the Undo History that should be trivial in implementing -

* Right-click menu could have "Explore (New Tab)", "Explore (New Window)" and also "Open Registered Program".

* Double-Clicking currently undoes but instinctively one expects double-clicking to open in a registered program. I think there should be an option to control what the double-click does and maybe that setting could be on the Undo History dialog itself.

* A button at the side could have the action of whatever the last right-click menu chosen was, so it tracks what you are typically using.

David
meteorquake
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Re: Undo History : enhancing the available actions

Post by meteorquake »

I wonder if the above ideas could be looked at, as it's just caught me out again, as it sometimes does: there's a force of habit where you double-click an item to view it, and it's easy to do so in the undo history, but instead of it opening the action is undone and the undo line disappears so you don't even know what it specifically was, which just now happened to me. As mentioned I think there needs to be an option that controls that behaviour. My personal preference is to use the Undo button provided to perform the undo (primary importance), and double-clicks should if possible open the file (if still present, such as a move or rename), and so on.
David
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Re: Undo History : enhancing the available actions

Post by void »

Right-click menu could have "Explore (New Tab)", "Explore (New Window)" and also "Open Registered Program".
I will consider an Explore in Everything option.
For now, please open the path and Explore in Everything from your file browser.


Double-Clicking currently undoes but instinctively one expects double-clicking to open in a registered program. I think there should be an option to control what the double-click does and maybe that setting could be on the Undo History dialog itself.
I will trial opening the path with double click to be consistent with other windows (eg: index journal)



Undoing an action will add that action as the last redo.
In Everything, from the Edit menu, hover over the redo menu item to see the action in the status bar.



Thank you for your suggestion.