The "Add directories" feature is misleading with leaf directories

Bug #248948 reported by Matthias Saou
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Moovida
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

This is with the 0.5.1 release from yesterday.

When I go to "Pictures", since I have none in the default "~/Pictures/" folder, I want to browse the directories from "~/Desktop/" where I have some photos.

So I go to "Add directories" and enter "Desktop", then "100casio", and once in there, I get the message :

"This directory does not contain any image files"

Which is not true and misleading. Something needs to be fixed here on the usability level to have the user (i.e. "me") understand that what needs to be done is "select" the folder from its parent folder, not go into it. Some suggestions of possible fixes :
- Display "This directory does not contain any subdirectories."
- Display "To add this directory, please return to the parent directory and select it."
- Display something to "add" the directory once inside it.
- Don't let users go into the directory if it doesn't contain any sub-directories.

Changed in elisa:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 0.5.4
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report Matthias!

Corresponding blueprint:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elisa/+spec/add-folder-usability-improvement-part-2

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in elisa:
milestone: 0.5.x → none
Revision history for this message
Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

This was fixed with Moovida I believe.

Changed in elisa:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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