Rack: Add sorting options to Module Browser

[AndrewBelt]

[Coirt]

Original idea was the best! To be clear: most recently used.

[catronomix]

I do like this! Maybe among the sorting options, module width is an idea if possible :)

[zxol]

Sorting by recently used, as well as sorting by most used.

Letting the user tag each module would be awesome. So you could tag "favorites" and a list of your favorite modules would come up, a bit like gmail/ google keep etc.

Maybe a community popularity sorting index would be cool too.

Recently updated is another idea.

[gabrielreygoodlatte]

User tagging or favoriting of modules in the browser would be great. I guess favorites used to be a feature but I missed it.

[AndrewBelt]

@Coirt This issue is about sorting options, so recently used would be an example of such an option.

@catronomix I don't know if module width is possible because ModelBoxes lazily create ModuleWidgets and doesn't know the width before it is created.

@zxol most used is possible. I can keep an enormous modulePopularity property in settings.json. recently updated is possible by reading the modification date of the plugin folder. Community data is a mess: It's time-variable, requires an internet connection, and new APIs, so I'm rejecting that idea.

@gabrielreygoodlatte I'm rejecting favorites, tagging, and rating at the moment, and anything else that requires manually setting data with a new UI.

[ducklin5]

@AndrewBelt I've had a look at the code and I can see that sorting by width would be tricky; it is still possible though. In order to get the width of all the modules, model->createModuleWidgetNull() will have to be called for each model. Of course, this would be terribly inefficient if it was run on every search. But what if it happens only once and the results are cached?

[XtremeSounds]

Yes I like this idea better. the only issue is sometimes there are some really good modules that i forget about or certain modules i only want to use but forget their name etc. How about instead of favorites we can add custom tags. Would that help?