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Tweak "Make selected reference"

#222

from email:

Once I've visually isolated a group, then I need to mark the ones to delete. The first time I did this, the file I wanted to delete was the first one in the group and I couldn't delete it. I was unable to figure what to do from the program and it took me about half an hour to find the relevant part of the manual. Once I found it, I figured out why it took me so long. I interpreted the context menu item "make selected reference" to mean something completely different than it does. This was because I parsed the phrase differently. I didn't read it as "Take the selected item and make it the reference item". I read it as "make something into a selected reference". Since that didn't make sense, I ignored it.

If you could rename this menu item to something like "make selected into reference" or something like that, it might keep others from having the same confusion I did.

Good idea. Confusion about this feature is a recurring support question.

Another one in the same vein:

When I use that context menu item, it takes the selected item, swaps it with the reference item, then leaves the newly swapped used-to-be-reference item highlighted. I found this very confusing. I'm used to programs that keep the highlight on the same semantic item, not the item in the same relative position after an operation. (This probably contributed to me not figuring out how to use that menu item. My directory names are very similar and the file names mostly identical. When experimenting and I selected that menu item, I probably thought it didn't actually do anything.)

Good idea too.

Reported by Virgil Dupras · January 26th, 2013 @ 06:27 PM

State: fixed
Milestone: none
Assigned to: Virgil Dupras Virgil Dupras

Activity

  1. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Title changed from Tweak "Make selected reference" text to Tweak "Make selected reference"

    January 26th, 2013 @ 06:29 PM

  2. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • Tag changed from feature, ui to ui, feature
    • Assigned user set to Virgil Dupras

    April 27th, 2013 @ 03:21 PM

  3. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras

    (from [5e2e1d829be2]) [#222] Tweaked ref-swapping action text.

    Make Selected Reference --> Make Selected into Reference.
    https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/dupeguru/changeset/5e2e1d829be2/

    April 27th, 2013 @ 03:39 PM

  4. Virgil Dupras
  5. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras

    Ticket fixed, but testing on OS X is needed.

    April 27th, 2013 @ 04:09 PM

  6. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras

    (from [1d1351a0c3f7]) Tweaked Make Selected into Reference.

    Having dupes from ref folders (which makes ref switching impossible) would make
    the new feature glitchy (selection would be emptied). Now, in cases where the action
    results in nothing being changed, the selection stays intact. [#222]
    https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/dupeguru/changeset/1d1351a0c3f7/

    April 28th, 2013 @ 08:12 PM

  7. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras
    • State changed from accepted to fixed

    Tested on OS X. Ticket fixed.

    April 28th, 2013 @ 08:12 PM

  8. Virgil Dupras
    Virgil Dupras

    (from [810ab1e1324e]) Improved selection handling during ref-swapping under dupes-only mode.

    Previously, our selection would simply be lost (because the dupes that were
    just swapped wouldn't be present in the table). Now, instead of trying to
    preserve our dupe-selection, we preserve our index-selection when in dupes-only
    mode. [#222]
    https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/dupeguru/changeset/810ab1e1324e/

    April 28th, 2013 @ 10:27 PM

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