[Feature Request] About Multi-folder User Operation Process

[kiyospace]

Thanks for the great software.

About the user operation process when multiple folders are targeted, currently I am seeing once I selected one folder, the program starts to run to find out the duplicates. Only can I add a second folder once the search on the previous finishes. This operation flow is kinda not so user-friendly in my personal perspective, especially when there are tons of files under the folders - the user has to wait for a long time to add the second, third... folder. Also it might give some misunderstanding that the program only searches duplicates within the first folder only, within the second folder only, and so on, instead of searching across the first, the second, the third... folders.

As for the fdupes command, the user can add the multiple folders in a series and then start to run the command, so I would suggest to add a "Start" button to run the program instead of automatically starting to run it after selecting the first folder. Also to add a "+" button for the user to add a second folder, a third folder... before hitting the "Start" button. Thanks very much!

[mx1up]

yes, good observation. i will improve.

for now, a good workaround is to start fdupes-gui with additional parameters for each directory you want to add. This will start the gui with the folders already added. I don't know which desktop environment you use, but in KDE you can achieve this easily using a dolphin service menu.