Exclude folders through Photos' UI
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Creating a .nomedia file is kinda an hacky solution to the problem of excluding directories from being indexed as part of Photos, but is also the only solution I could think of.
Describe the solution you'd like
I think that it would be nice to add an "exclude folders" button to the app's sidebar that would automatically add a .nomedia file to the selected folder, so that the end user doesn't really have to know how the app excludes folders, making things easier and prettier.
Related to #234 and #141
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the Photos sidebar and the existing handling for folders and .nomedia files. Verify the finished behavior by selecting a folder through the UI, confirming that .nomedia is added there, and checking that the folder is excluded from indexing.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100