Open recent photos

[debbru]

Can anyone tell me why you would Clear menu, under Open recent 

[Ron P.]

I do it all the time. After a while or if you're opening a lot of images, it gets a little congested, just too many (for me). My thought process is, how many times do I want to open the same images over and over again?

[carl123]

18 minutes ago, debbru said:

Can anyone tell me why you would Clear menu, under Open recent 

So that your partner does not know what sort of images you have been working on

[Pšenda]

46 minutes ago, debbru said:

Can anyone tell me why you would Clear menu, under Open recent 

I use Open Recent very often, which is why I need to tidy it up from time to time for better orientation.
Unfortunately, since Affinity does not allow you to delete selected files or files that are no longer available, I sometimes have to delete the items from the junk with Clear that got tangled up in my work files.

If Affinity allowed you to create/mark Favorites files, it would be even better.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

If Affinity allowed you to create/mark Favorites files, it would be even better.

Isn't that what they tried to do with Pinning in the Recent view?

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Isn't that what they tried to do with Pinning in the Recent view?

Unfortunately, this function is not available in the menu File\Open Recent, so I didn't even notice it.
In the menu, pinned/favourite files could be displayed in a separate (primarily accessible) and non-deletable section. In this way, the use of pinned files is unnecessarily limited to the welcome screen. 

[PaulEC]

5 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Unfortunately, since Affinity does not allow you to delete selected files or files that are no longer available,

You can delete selected and no longer available files from the Recent files using "More..." or use Alt+Shift+O. (This is in the Recent View, but it also removes them from the File, Recent list).

[Pšenda]

15 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

and no longer available files from the Recent files

In the version for Windows, the function of automatic deletion of files that are no longer available is not available.

[nickbatz]

On Mac (I don't know about Windows) you can preview files in the Open dialog if you hit the spacebar, then scan through them with the up and down arrows.

 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

On Mac (I don't know about Windows) you can preview files in the Open dialog if you hit the spacebar, then scan through them with the up and down arrows.

 

On Windows, File Explorer (which drives the Open dialog) allows you to see thumbnails or previews, if you want.

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Isn't that what they tried to do with Pinning in the Recent view?

I'm on a Mac, but I see no way to add anything to the Pinned view in the Recent Files window.

5 hours ago, PaulEC said:

You can delete selected and no longer available files from the Recent files using "More..." or use Alt+Shift+O. (This is in the Recent View, but it also removes them from the File, Recent list).

Same thing -- on my Mac I do not see any way to delete any file showing up in the Recent Files window.

Could some Mac user tell me how to do either of those things?

[nickbatz]

3 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I'm on a Mac, but I see no way to add anything to the Pinned view in the Recent Files window.

Same thing -- on my Mac I do not see any way to delete any file showing up in the Recent Files window.

Could some Mac user tell me how to do either of those things?

This is in Ventura. Is it what you're asking?

Please ignore the silly names.

 

[R C-R]

32 minutes ago, Murfee said:

Move your mouse over the top right corner of a file, a pin should appear, click it

Thanks! Because I use the dark UI the dark gray pin that appears is almost invisible against the black window background so I never noticed it.

Just figured out that to delete a selected file from the recents list I have to click once to select it in the Recent Files window & then hover the pointer over the top left corner until an X in a circle appears. At least that is while on black so it is easy to see, but it seems counter-intuitive that I have to select the file to delete it whereas I do not to pin the file.

Arg! I don't have to select the file to get the X to appear, but I have to be directly over some part of it for it to appear, whereas the pin icon does that over a slightly larger area.

Overall, I am not a fan of this kind of hiding an option until the pointer is over it because you have no way of knowing it is there until you find where it has been hidden. It would be so much more user friendly if both of those icons always appeared near each file.

Besides, as it is there seems to be no way to use either option if the window is not set to thumbnail view, so a right-click popup with the pin & delete options would work for either view.

I just noticed that if it is set to line item (or whatever it is called) view the pin icons do appear at the right of the line.

Edited February 9, 2023 by R C-R

[Old Bruce]

I don't know why the Pin and Delete icons do not just show (dimmed if not pinned, high contrast if pinned) all the time. Another example of the trend for a "less distracting" user interface design (failure).

[R C-R]

21 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I don't know why the Pin and Delete icons do not just show (dimmed if not pinned, high contrast if pinned) all the time. Another example of the trend for a "less distracting" user interface design (failure).

The same annoying & unwelcome trend can be seen in the Layers panel where the lock icon is only visible on a layer if it is locked or you move the pointer over where it can be enabled. It is not as if these tiny little icons would pose a real distraction!