Configurable filename marquee speed

[rawtaz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When filenames are somewhat long (e.g. those in the CallRecordings folder), it takes a long time to be able to see the rightmost part of the filenames when they scroll (i.e. when the marquee effect is enabled). This is a bit frustrating because when you do see the rightmost part of the filenames, you might want to look at another one after that, and then you have to wait for another scrolling to complete, over and over again :)

Describe the solution you'd like

1. Simply an option by which I can control how fast the marquee effect scrolls the filenames. This option should be able to make it at least as slow as it currently is, but it is important that it is also possible to make it go really fast, as some people can read scrolling text really fast.

2. A second option could be to enable "manual" marquee/scrolling of filenames, as a complement to the regular marquee effect. What I mean is that if this option is enabled, instead of the filenames scrolling sideways all the time, one can manually just "slide" the filename text left or right, to see what the filename is. This would be very useful too, I think.

3. A combination of these two options would be to have a configurable speed of the marquee, and at the same time be able to hold a finger on the filename to pause the marquee of the filename, and then that you can also move it right and left to manually affect the sideways position of the filename. When you let go again, the automatic scrolling would continue from where the filename was currently scrolled to (e.g. by you manually).

Of these three, I think #1 is the most important one and perhaps also the simplest one to implement (should be just a slider and making use of that slider value).

Describe alternatives you've considered
Not much of an alternative, what you can do right now is to just be really prepared to see the text when it scrolls into view. But as I said, if you want to inspect several filenames, you have to wait for multiple scrollings to happen to see all of them.

Additional context
Let me know if you need any more info or examples!

[VishnuSanal]

@rawtaz Hi, thanks for the descriptive feature request! I'll get back to this & triage it soon. :)

[VishnuSanal]

hi @rawtaz, the solution we currently have for being unable to view the file extensions is to turn off the marquee. Settings -> Appearance -> Enable marquee for file names.

of the three solutions you suggested, #2 & #3 seems to be very bad UX unfortunately. #1 seems reasonable -- to have configurable speeds for file name marquee.

we will keep this issue open & is welcome for contributions. :)

[rawtaz]

hi @rawtaz, the solution we currently have for being unable to view the file extensions is to turn off the marquee. Settings -> Appearance -> Enable marquee for file names.

This is in no way whatsoever a solution to the problem. The reason is simple; Turning off the marquee results in the user having to click three additional times to view a long filename, and that is per file. Hence, it is nothing short of just "more clicks" rather than a "solution" :-)

I'd also like to point out that the issue is not specifically about seeing the file extensions. It's about seeing long filenames, that don't fit in the view. For example call recordings.

of the three solutions you suggested, #2 & #3 seems to be very bad UX unfortunately.

I'm not sure in which way you think it's bad UX. It would let the user easily just scroll the filenames sideways manually. There is nothing hard or complicated about that, and anyone would understand how to use it straight away.

#1 seems reasonable -- to have configurable speeds for file name marquee.

Yeah, I agree with you. This seems like the simplest and best solution. Is it something you think you can implement or have you already decided that you will not spend time on implementing this?