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Edit Caption - make more natural

Open meteorquake opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

Currently you can right-click a caption title, Edit Caption, enter a new caption, hit Enter. As this is a very common task (certainly for me, I'm sure not just only me) it would be nice to make it as natural as possible.

  • Make it easier to enter the edit mode - just click in the title to edit (ideally; then the '*' indicating an edited file would need to temporarily vanish for the edit), or double-click it or ctrl-click into it. This can also be put against the menu item as a reminder.

  • Allow for just clicking out of the edited caption to commit it (rather than requiring Enter, which should also work). Currently if you click out of it you lose your edit without any warning which should be regarded as a bug.

Cheers, David

meteorquake avatar Mar 06 '25 17:03 meteorquake

What is this caption used for? It seems it is not being used in the Comparison Result column. It would be nice that, instead of the full name, it displayed the caption, for easier identification. I'm comparing 3 folders, and in the Comparison Result column, it shows something like:

Right only: C:\Very\Large\Path\That\Is\Hard\To\Read Does not exist in C:\Some\Other\Very\Large\Path

I'm not sure if it would be problematic since it may have other uses that I am not aware of, but I think it would be nice to have the Comparison Result displayed with the specified caption, like this (assuming "Left Folder" and "Right Folder" are the captions):

Right only: Left Folder Does not exist in Right Folder

and for nested paths (maybe):

Right only: Left Folder\Some folder\Folder1 Does not exist in Right Folder\Some other folder\Folder2

I'm also not sure if this should be mentioned in this issue, but I figured it is the only open issue about the Edit Caption feature, and it would be nice to have this implemented alongside the mentioned stuff. I would love to hear back about any other thoughts about this, and to be corrected if needed!

Thanks and cheers.

TheBrunoRM avatar Aug 09 '25 05:08 TheBrunoRM