Peter Sobolewski

Could adda heuristic that if there are more than `n` non-csv files that have the same extension, then stack em? But what would be `n`? 5? 10? Edit: 30+ channels...

Other option: `Open Folder as Stack` menu item Less magic, more explicit. Edit2: and maybe rename the other `Open Folder as Layers`? Edit3: for drag-n-drop there already is a keybind...

That sounds reasonable though, makes it consistent -- dragging a batch of files or a folder of the same files should work identically, with the same options.

OK, ill put this in draft and poke around. So the idea is: 1. Have Open Folder > (sub menu) - as Layers - as Stack 2. Have drag-n-drop of...

Of course zarr and other things will be annoying to handle or explain. 😡 Frankly, I have no idea whether a zarr should be as a file or as a...

@DragaDoncila I spent some time on this but as far as I can tell npe2 readers don't get `stack` passed to them anywhere? magic_imreader just has stack=True set by default...

Any thoughts where that leaves this PR?

QuPath (https://qupath.github.io) also has this feature. There it's called multiple viewers, but the viewer in QuPath is analogous to the napari canvas. Here's an old doc, but still accurate: https://github.com/qupath/qupath/wiki/Multiple-images...

I ran into this today. Pretty important use-case, particularly for keybindings, because printing prints to the Jupyter so it's not readily visible in napari if you are working on a...

I just typed `ipython` in my terminal in an env with just napari and jupyterlab. So I'm not sure what backend, but it returned `qt5` so safe to assume qt....