[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.