.nomedia / .noimage file not respected within "Your photos"

[lbdroid]

A partial fix was implemented in #159 for respecting .nomedia / .noimage files in a path, but unfortunately, it only applies to the "Your albums" tree.

The "Your photos" tree is still a disaster.

[skjnldsv]

Not sure if doable, let's see what we can do :)
Thanks for opening a specified one!

[bendschs]

ok, so no fix yet?

[skjnldsv]

ok, so no fix yet?

As you can see by the labels and the status of this issue no.

[Queuecumber]

Not sure if doable

Not exactly filling me with confidence. This is pretty important and should have been part of the design from the beginning especially since there was previous gallery app to learn from. "Your photos" view is a real mess right now.

[Queuecumber]

The problem seems to be that you've implemented "your photos" using a webdav search for any image type. (ref: src/services/PhotoSearch.js) It seems doubtful that the webdav search properties are going to be able to filter based on the existance of a file in the same directory.

I think using a search here is not the way to go, you should be walking the directory tree in the same way the album view is built, otherwise you risk the albums view and the "you photos" view being out of sync (exactly the cause of this bug).

Intuitively, the "your photos" view (called timeline in the code which is a MUCH better name for it) should be for showing you the exact same content from the albums view but with no hierarchy. This is in line with other modern photo sharing products such as google photos.

[skjnldsv]

This is pretty important and should have been part of the design from the beginning especially since there was previous gallery app to learn from. "Your photos" view is a real mess right now.

Agreed :/
We didn't thought there would be taht many people using the .nomedia trick :)
But what is done is done, we can only improve from there! :)

called timeline in the code which is a MUCH better name for it

You think it makes more sense to call it Timeline?
Not sure how well that translates to other languages though. I definitely prefer it in English, but I fail to think of one for French 🤔
But that's another issue :)
Mind to open a new one for it?
Maybe others can jump in and have opînions 🙇‍♀️

[Queuecumber]

I think the only way to implement it without a full re-architect is to do #141 and instruct people to move photos they dont want showing out of the root photos folder. Is anyone currently working on that? I can try to look at it when I get time.

[skjnldsv]

Is anyone currently working on that? I can try to look at it when I get time.

That would be awesome Thanks :)
Yes, the plan is to do #141 first anyway, as this is more discoverable and easy than weird .nomedia files, which most users don't know a single thing about.

[bendschs]

how come this is still open? this was a quite small feature but with big impact on usability.