file import options

My other plan for this week was getting 'note parsing' working for the downloader. I laid out everything I would have to do, and the first bulky thing I have to do is get 'Note Import Options' integrated. That will be a surprising amount of work, and over some ugly areas, so I decided to take things a little slower and do some cleanup beforehand so I could do it properly.

So, this week I overhauled some of how File Import Options works. There is some behind the scenes work to make all the import options work a little nicer, and also, on the front end, File Import Options now does two new things:

First, File Import Options now has a filetype filter. You can say 'only allow jpegs' or 'only allow video' or whatever you like, just like the 'system:filetype' search predicate. Import Folders used to have this too, but they send those settings down to their File Import Options when they update this week.

Second, File Import Options now have the idea of being 'default' like Tag Import Options do. All your existing File Import Options will stay as they are, but any new ones will be in 'default' state, meaning at the time of import, your settings under options->importing will be used instead. This makes it easier to edit your File Import Options en masse, since there is only one place to go for most changes you ever want to make.

The manage subscriptions dialog now has a 'overwrite file import options' button too, if you do want to mass-set some specific File Import Options across your subs. You might like to just set them all to default this week--I think I will.

This 'default' concept is going to be applied to Note Import Options too. I am still thinking about how extensive the defaults system should be for File and Note Import Options. At the moment, File Import Options still just has the 'quiet' and 'loud' defaults in the options dialog, but I could expand things so you can set a default File Import Options for particular domains as you can for Tag Import Options. I'm thinking of combining them all into one tabbed edit dialog, so I may also extract the Presentation Options out of File Import Options, since those may have a different shape of 'defaults' than File Import Options most of the time. If you care about this stuff, let me know what you think.

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