Desktop: Don't show "File/Folder is ignored" in activity

[icewind1991]

Currently when I go to the Activity tab, any useful information is drowned out by a massive list of ignored files.

Expected behaviour

The activity tab tells me what is being synced/failed to sync

Actual behaviour

The activity tab is full of ignored message

While the ignored messages can be useful for finding out why a file is not on your server, it shouldn't be grouped with "real" activity messages, especially since the ignored messages seem to be repeated every time the sync runs

[kevinkk525]

I can put a seconds opinion to that. The makeover of the GUI made it actually useless as you can't filter between activities, downloaded/uploaded files and ignored files. Searching for anything in there is no fun. The old interface was a lot better in that way.

[JohnWalkerx]

Maybe a filter will be useful. Where you can select which typ of messages are displayed.

[caugner]

This is especially annoying when you have a message There are unresolved conflicts. Click for details. on the main tab that just redirects to the Activity tab and you cannot locate the actual conflict(s).

A visual improvement would be to not use the warning symbol for SyncFileItem::FileIgnored here:

https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/blob/d1b9d100b420f9b4a8678a899814302025a8371e/src/gui/activitylistmodel.cpp#L105-L109

Instead an info symbol could be shown, based on state-sync.svg and server/info.svg.

[pjotrek-b]

Unfortunately, I have to agree:

I just switched from owncloud to nextcloud and was irritated that the nextcloud systray icon is always the warning symbol. Until I read the activity log, I assumed something was broken :disappointed:

[christianlupus]

I would really anticipate this feature. When running into problems or even the uncertainty if a certain file is successfully transferred, the current state is a mess as the warnings always to to the top.

[caugner]

@camilasan Since those lines were last touched by you, do you think it would be hard not to use a warning symbol for SyncFileItem::FileIgnored?

[hanscomps]

I would like to +1 on a feature to at least filter Activity types in the list.
Users are complaining they have sync errors but have to navigate 1000s of ignore files to get to the activity message.

[pjotrek-b]

@hanscomps True! Same here. Not 1000s, but still needle/haystack-ish :wink:

[hanscomps]

We literally have 1000s; some CAD tools generate most of them.

[cweiske]

Duplicate of #566.

[ftoledo]

PLease add this functionality to hide the "hidden files" messages too, its not very useful if not error occurs.

[caugner]

With #1347 merged, the next version will make it easier to spot conflicts visually, since all the activities concerning ignored files will appear with a blue info icon rather than the yellow warning icon.

Having said this, a filter function is still desirable.

[keunes]

Related: #566