Koreader: File Browser enhancements

[worldexplorer]

• KOReader version: FEATURE__REQUEST
• Device: kobo glo hd

Issue

glitches & features of the main browser

1) if I CUT a file , then I open an EPUB, return to the file browser, I can't PASTE because what i COPIED is lost. I need to go find it again, change the folder again and PASTE;

2) in the file browser, long click on the empty content inside an empty folder doesn't bring any context menu. I can't PASTE into the folder that has no files;

3) PASTing into ".." pastes into the parent folder; it's logical but not the expected outcome; files pasted just disappear from the view (being one level up) which is unexpected; the popup with "PASTE" should probably NOT show up on ".." element, but SHOULD on the empty field if the folder is empty, or there are 4 files and the rest of the screen is empty (must be long-clickable, I think)

4) context menu, besides "Set as Home Directory", may have "Save EPUBs downloaded from wiki into THIS folder"

5) I'm missing multiple files selection, probably with checkboxes and changing the background color; for further COPY / CUT + PASTE with a review of which files are selected - as a plain list (I may have selected EPUBs from multiple folders) of EPUBs + respective *.sdr

6) please add "Move To" menu item for selected files, with a folder chooser as a new pop-up, instead of walking away and PASTE into another folder - sample of UI is in AntTek explorer android app; for portable touch devices, one instance of the interface is preferred instead of multitasking Windows-style "open new window", norton commander - like panels, and implicitly changing directories like now in koreader

The context as for why would a user need these above - I download articles from wiki and I put them in the folders by the subject AFTER I downloaded; the number of clicks while organizing EPUBs can be reduced twice at least.

I'll pay $20 ; I just need these features :)

[Frenzie]

Pinging @robert00s who's been adding some good stuff to the file browser.

PASTing into ".." pastes into the parent folder; it's logical but not the expected outcome; files pasted just disappear from the view (being one level up) which is unexpected; the popup with "PASTE" should probably NOT show up on ".." element, but SHOULD on the empty field if the folder is empty, or there are 4 files and the rest of the screen is empty (must be long-clickable, I think)

Don't have the program at hand atm but wasn't this added to the + menu as a workaround? :-) (Set download folder could also go in there.)

[poire-z]

I consider 3. , as you describe how it is currently, as a big feature and time saver (that answers your 6. ):
when you are in a dir, and want to move a file up a directory or into a subdir, you just hold on it, cut, hold on ".." or on the subdir, and paste. Done.
On slow eink screen, I don't want to cut, tap on the directory I want to go in, display the whole new directory, find an empty space to hold on to to be able to paste.
(I'm not even sure it was intended to be such a good feature, may be it's just a side effect of pasting expecting a directory and being given a directory).

About 4. (and an other comment in another issue of yours), I reckon the Wikipedia settings/Set Wikipedia 'Save as EPUB' directory is a bit rudimentory, and could probably be changed to a FileChooser widget.
I guess that when you are in a wikipedia epub saving campaign, you are on a same topic, so you don't need to be asked every time where to save it. You'd set it at start with a hopefully better/easier widget, and use that one for some time, till you get to another topic.
I don't think it should be in the hold menu (because if so, why not all the others: OPDS, cloud storage, the various plugins that download stuff...?)

But why not: have a Wikipedia/ directory, with subdirs Wikipedia/Science/ Wikipedia/Litterature/ ... , having the EPUB saved in Wikipedia/ , and (with what I described in my first point above) moving them later in the adequate subdirs should take less steps than what you would get with your other requests answered, I think.

[Frenzie]

Agreed on 3. I think the complaint is mostly that if you enter a folder it's less self-evident how to paste in it.

[cramoisi]

@worldexplorer for 2. When you cut a epub and you want to paste it in an empty folder, you just have to long press on the folder itself (not inside the folder) and then choose "paste". It will do it right.
It works for all folders, you don't have to open them to paste something inside, just long press on the folder.

( if I may, my two cents) I love koreader's filemanger view/philosophy but when you have huge sorting to do, it seems to me more efficient / effortless to plug your device on a computer and do it from there. The reader provides solutions for the occasional copy/cut/paste and it's great but it doesn't have to be a full OS and sometimes I have the tendency to think it would defeat the whole purpose of the thing. (but again, it just my subjective point of view).