/hydrus/ - Hydrus Network

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- video scanbar autohide:
- the scanbar that shows below audio and video is now embedded inside the video frame, and it show/hides based on how close your mouse is to it
- I've wanted to do this for a long time, since it will allow you to watch 16:9 videos at true 100% in borderless fullscreen, but the hackery of how the media viewer works behind the scenes means this took more work than you'd think and is still a little jank. there's a small amount of flicker when it pops in and out, which I will work on in future. in any case, please have a play with it and let me know what you think. I expect to add some more options, like for the activation padding area around it, and I will be tidying up more layout stuff throughout the media viewer
- if you are a mostly keyboard user, please check out the new 'global' shortcut to flip on/off a 'force the animation scanbar to show' mode
- I don't really want to bring back the always-on hanging-below scanbar that just takes up space, but if you try this new embedded scanbar and really hate it, we'll see what we can do
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- more duplicate filter search options:
- the duplicates page now has a dropdown on the search for 'must be/can be/excludes pixel dupes'!
- the duplicates page now has a number control on the search for what distance the pair was found at! I am not sure how accurate this thing is in all cases, but it seems I started tracking this data some time ago and forgot I even had it
- these new options are remembered in your session and _should_ remain fast in most normal cases. I put time into some complicated database work this week to get this going, please let me know if you have any trouble with it
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- misc:
- when the export filename pattern in the export files dialog means many of the files share the same base and hence need to do 'filename (5)'-style suffixes to be unique, the number here is now calculated much more efficiently. opening this dialog on 10,000 files with an oft-duplicate pattern should now be a jolt of lag but not many minutes
- when you choose to 'separate' a subscription with more than 100 queries, you are no longer forced to break it into half
- when you do break a subscription in half, it now makes sure to sort the query texts before separating
- if you are in advanced mode, the 'selection tags' list on the left of every page can now switch its tag display type between 'multiple media views', 'display', and 'storage'. this is experimental and a bunch of stuff like 'select files with this tag' won't work yet
- janitors' petition pages now start with their tag list in 'storage' mode, so you can see the actual tags being changed rather than with siblings and parents calculated
- rebalanced some janitor mapping petition weights. jannies _should_ see a smoother balance of 'lots of small petitions' vs 'a few larger petitions' amongst petitions all with the same reason and creator

- boring cleanup and little fixes:
- when you set the checker options in the edit subscription dialog, the queries now recalculate their file velocity better. previously, they would just set 'unknown' and recalc on the next run, but now they will actually recalculate if the query container is loaded into memory or otherwise put a status that says 'will calculate on next run'
- removed the 'should be namespaced' reason from the manage tags quick petition reasons. this is now all handled by siblings, tidying up storage tags manually is busywork
- when you click 'copy traceback' on an error popup, it also copies the software version, your platform, and if you are on a frozen build or running from source
- the logger now prints version number for every block, just before the timestamp
- cleaned up a variety of media viewer UI code while working on the scanbar, fixing some misc display bugs
- moved pixel hash storage responsibility from 'file metadata' to 'similar files' module
- the similar files system now searches pixel hashes when it is called to do any similar files search. they count as 'exact match' distance
- when a file gets a new pixel hash, it now sees if any other files have that same hash. if so, it now gets queued up again in the similar files search system, ensuring this match is not missed
- misc nomenclature cleanup--since we now have both 'pixel hashes' and 'phashes', phashes are now referred to as 'perceptual hashes' everywhere
- massively refactored the primary table join that drives potential duplicates search. it should work a bit faster now and it is much easier to work with
- I added pixel dupe and distance search to the standard search results version of the join and the 'system:everything' version, which has several optimisations
- silenced some shutdown handling in file maintenance that was being printed to log as an error
- fixed some 'broken object load' error handling to print the timestamp of the specific bad object, not whatever timestamp was requested. this error handling now also prints the full dump name and version to the log, and version to the exported filename. I was working with a user who had broken subs this week, and lacking this full info made things just a little trickier to put back together
- fixed some drag and drop handling where it was possible to drop thumbnails on a certain location of a page of pages that held an empty page of pages but it would not create a new child media page to hold them
- misc serverside db code cleanup
- fixed python 3.10 type bugs in window coordinate saving and Qt image generation from buffer (issue #1027)

next week

With Christmas coming up, this will be the last full work week of my year. I want to have just a simple cleanup and small-fixes week so I have a fairly unambitious and 'clean' release before I go on holiday.

 >>/1188/
not sure where you will see this first, so ill post in both places. 

as far as the media scrollbar is concerned, I GREATLY prefer to have it below and always on, I am not using hydrus to watch shows or long videos, for me the videos are essentially just replacing gifs at this point. I love being able to see how much longer they have, and being able to scrub through them without covering a good portion of the video. 

If there is a way to have a toggle between visible and hidden, on video or below video, I think that would be best, because as it stands now, it's annoying to use to scrub things because it's not always there, and at least for me it's also annoying to have to keep my mouse there to see how long the video will last.

I should also mention that the way I use hydrus is I have a 4k screen, so I have the left half as media viewer area, and the right half as either the hydrus thumbnails, or a youtube video, I never have it just fullscreen.

I had a good week. I fixed some small bugs and brushed up a little UI. Nothing too ambitious, but it should make for a nice clean release before I break for my holiday.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

 >>/1191/
Thank you. I untangled all this UI code this week and I feel better about adding options like 'hang below' in future. I have saved your thoughts and will try to enable this again soon into the new year.