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Quick Preview: No rescanning of roots, just preview currently found games

Open redactedscribe opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

What's your idea?

Each entry has a preview option which can be triggered, but this cannot be done for all games in the list unless you go through one-by-one, which would be tedious, or to just click Preview at the top of the list and re-scan all roots.

In my case, re-scanning takes 65 seconds each time, when I presume it'd be much faster if no scan took place and only the currently found games were to be refreshed. Something like this would let me open Ludusavi, and perform a Quick Preview for all games when I know I haven't installed any new games, so a rescan isn't necessary (as far as I understand how the program works).

Recent issues I've made have been suggesting ideas that relate to some kind of restructuring of Ludusavi, and unfortunately, here is another 😄:

The Preview button at the top. "Preview"? Is this a holdover from the initial concept of Ludusavi in its primitive form? To me, the button acts more like a scan. This could be simply due to the fact it takes me 65 seconds to repopulate the list, whereas in your case in some of the videos you've posted, it takes you much less time. It behaves like a scan, not something quick like a preview on your end. So I propose that it be renamed to "Scan". What I suggest in this issue as a "Quick Preview" could then just be a "Preview", or "Refresh"? I think I understand why it's called "Preview", because it populates the list and previews what will be backed up, but I guess that's just not how I think of it. I'm sure I've written enough ideas for today so I'll leave it at that! I may have even suggested something similar in the past, forgive me... 🙂

Thanks.

redactedscribe avatar Aug 22 '23 11:08 redactedscribe