[feature request] Folder as Workspace

[deleelee]

I’d love the following to be added to Folder as Workspace:

1. Sort added folders. Currently they are sorted in the order they’re added and it can’t be changed.
2. Add a folder from the FaW panel. Currently they can only be added from other menus.
3. Customise the panel tab icon. I use a custom button (and icon) to open the FaW panel and it would be great to be able to have the matching icon on the tab.

[PeterJones]

@deleelee ,

0. We cannot do anything about Feature Requests here except talk about them. For more, see “FAQ: Feature Request”
1. per this ancient issue , it used to be completely unsorted; then he sorted by name within the directory, but it didn’t work for everyone, and the developer indicated here that doing such sorts in a hiearchical display like FaW is difficult, so I doubt much more will happen. If you want to explore, you can see what happened in the other “Folder As Workspace + sort ” results of searching existing issues
2. Right click in the empty space at the bottom of the Folder as Workspace panel, choose Add. This is documented in the User Manual . Also, see this feature request to add an icon to add/remove a folder to FaW panel
3. Interesting. I don’t know that anyone has ever asked for that before. It might be worth at least trying to request it officially (see item 0)

[deleelee]

@PeterJones said in [feature request] Folder as Workspace:

0. We cannot do anything about Feature Requests here except talk about them. For more, see “FAQ: Feature Request”
1. per this ancient issue , it used to be completely unsorted; then he sorted by name within the directory, but it didn’t work for everyone, and the developer indicated here that doing such sorts in a hiearchical display like FaW is difficult, so I doubt much more will happen. If you want to explore, you can see what happened in the other “Folder As Workspace + sort ” results of searching existing issues
2. Right click in the empty space at the bottom of the Folder as Workspace panel, choose Add. This is documented in the User Manual . Also, see this feature request to add an icon to add/remove a folder to FaW panel
3. Interesting. I don’t know that anyone has ever asked for that before. It might be worth at least trying to request it officially (see item 0)

Thanks again, Peter.

0. Apologies, I completely forgot about that.

1. Those articles seem to be referring to sorting of files within folders. I would like to be able to sort the folders when multiple folders are added to the workspace.

2. I am so sorry I missed that. I thought I had tried right-clicking empty space but, obviously, I didn’t.

3. I didn’t think it would be a common request. I shall consider opening a feature request on GitHub.