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I had a great couple of weeks working on file timestamps.

Full changelog: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/changelog.html

timestamps

Unfortunately, although I did a ton of work here, not much of it is interesting or even visible! Essentially, two weeks ago, the different timestamps your files have--stuff like import time and archived time--were stored all over the place, and now they are stored together. When they are consulted, it now all happens down the same pathway, and I have written a proper update pipeline using this new system.

The user upshot is that you can now right-click->manage->times on a file and edit all its timestamps. This means archived, imported, deleted, previously imported (for undelete), file modified, domain modified, and last viewed times. This new dialog is basic and only for single files for now, but we can now see these things any time and edit little problems. If you end up using this dialog a lot, there's a media shortcut action, 'manage file times' for it.

I've also added 'system:archived' for the 'system:time' stub. It works just like the other time predicates.

I had hoped to integrate this new timestamp manager and update pipeline into the sidecar and Client API systems, but there was so much cleanup to do that I just ran out of time. I'm very glad I did this work, and there's now a much nicer base to work with and extend time tracking in future--like if I want to figure out a 'fill in some good guesses for retroactive archived times', it wouldn't be so much of a hack now--but there is more to do.

other highlights

All multi-column lists across the program now show ▲ or ▼ on the column header they are currently sorted by. This is something I meant to add for ages; now it is done.

All menus across the program now send their commands' longer description text to the main window's status bar. They also show it on tooltips now. These descriptions have been in the program the whole time, but many were difficult or impossible to see. Let's see how annoying the tooltips are--I'll add an option or turn them off if they keep getting in the way.

I fixed a stupid bug from v521 that was causing the advanced deletion dialog to always set the default reason. Sorry for the trouble--it was a testing issue!

next week

A mix of small work, just general catchup. I'd like to also get timestamps working in sidecars and/or the Client API, but we'll see.