I don't have a significant interest in this debate -- I have a 50" 4K monitor, and though I sync a few million files daily, both locally and remotely, FFS meets my needs either way as I can maximize my window and have no truncation or misalignment. I've donated occasionally, but I consider FFS to be essentially free; frankly I don't care for the entitled tone of some of the posts, but, despite that, I assume that they are meant in good faith. For my part, speaking as a fellow programmer, I thank the author and appreciate his work, which, I can assure you all, is not trivial.
With that said, and as I've commented before, the new view is demonstrably a step backwards. The new layout does not save any horizontal space, it does not make the list more readable, and the misalignment that occurs trying to keep the file name displayed is simply confusing.
There are, in my opinion, only three useful ways to display the list, and I would like to see all three, and be able to switch between a flat and tree layout without resynching (which should be no problem as the underlying data must be the full filenames).
Option 1 is the original list, with mouse-over to display the full path of a truncated filename. I think this would be far more useful if the ellipsis was rendered in the middle of the name, e.g. "c:\users\...\some\file" when the filename doesn't fit.
Option 2 is a tree-like layout (directory folding would be very nice, but is not essential to me). This will maximize horizontal space at the cost of additional vertical space, and "empty" folders should be combined on a single line to avoid unnecessary vertical space. This looks like:
Sync Root Folder 1
File1
File2
File3
A Subfolder
File4
File5
Subfolder\with\some\empty\folders
File6
File7
Another Subfolder
File8
And so on
Sync Root Folder 2
AsAbove
Etc etc
You get the idea
Option 3, as I mentioned in a previous post, would regain significant horizontal space by splitting the current two-pane left/right display into three panes, filename/left/right. The filename would then be shown only once, with a left/right pane for the file details to indicate which side is newer and which direction it's going to go. This would apply to both an improved original view and a tree view, whereupon only the first pane would change when the view is toggled.
So I'd like to see a program option for a two-pane or three pane view, with a list toggle for tree layout and flat layout. But if nothing changes, or it's reverted to the original view, then I'm not complaining either.
