Feature: Update the Drives Widget & Tags Widget when refreshing the Home Page

[ferrariofilippo]

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• Closes Feature: Auto refresh drive widget & tags widget when changes are detected #6182

Steps

• Make the Refresh button actually refresh the home page
• Refresh Tags when changes are detected
• Refresh Tags when files are tagged
• Refresh drives when files are added/removed

Steps used to test these changes

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1. Open the home page
2. Play with tags/drives and recent files
3. See the home page widgets are refreshed

[ferrariofilippo]

@yaira2 I'm not sure we should use the filewatcher to update drives. If a user is copying many items this would slow down the process

[yaira2]

That could be a concern, we might be better off reloading the details only when the user refreshes the page.

[Josh65-2201]

Couldn't it refresh when the home page is opened, that way it auto refreshes without the performance issue

[ferrariofilippo]

Couldn't it refresh when the home page is opened, that way it auto refreshes without the performance issue

This seems a good workaround, I'll look into it

[yaira2]

Refresh Tags when changes are detected

Is this automatic, or does it require refreshing the page?

[ferrariofilippo]

Refresh Tags when changes are detected

Is this automatic, or does it require refreshing the page?

It was automatic but I reverted it in the last commit. I can re-revert it if it's needed
(It still works automatically when their name/colors are updated from settings)

[yaira2]

So just to confirm, aside from when the settings change, the only live updating is when manually refreshing & when navigating to the home page?

[ferrariofilippo]

So just to confirm, aside from when the settings change, the only live updating is when manually refreshing & when navigating to the home page?

Currently the behaviour is as follows:

• When a drive is (un)mounted it is added to the Drives widget [even for network drives]
• When files are opened they are added to the Recent files widget
• When pinned folders are changed the Quick Access widget is updated

Introduced in this PR:

• Update the Tags widget when tags are changed from settings
• When manually refreshing the Home page or navigating to it, update all the widgets

I can add back the code to update the Tags widget when items are tagged.
As mentioned above I don't think we should update the drives widget whenever items are moved

[yaira2]

LGTM