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Multiple select in all lists in the app #12090

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Stypox opened this issue Mar 11, 2025 · 1 comment
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Multiple select in all lists in the app #12090

Stypox opened this issue Mar 11, 2025 · 1 comment
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feature request Issue is related to a feature in the app GUI Issue is related to the graphical user interface niche Only relevant to a very small amount of people

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Stypox commented Mar 11, 2025

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  • I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
  • I have read the FAQ and my problem isn't listed.
  • I'm aware that this is a request for NewPipe itself and that requests for adding a new service need to be made at NewPipeExtractor.
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Sometimes a user may want to perform the same action on multiple items in a list (e.g. a playlist, the history screen, the list of recommended videos, ...). At the moment, the user has to long-click on every item, and perform the same action from the long press menu. However, it would be faster if NewPipe allowed to first select multiple items, and then perform an action on all of them.

In case this feature is implemented, it would make sense to also add a button that allows selecting the whole list, as this would solve issues such as #5482.

This feature request is quite niche and should be considered carefully before being implemented, because it likely requires heavy changes in various places in the app, and it's not necessarily so useful for many users.

Note: this issue was created to combine #11490, #8584, #7231 and #3444 which are basically the same issue just for different screens

@Stypox Stypox added feature request Issue is related to a feature in the app needs triage Issue is not yet ready for PR authors to take up GUI Issue is related to the graphical user interface niche Only relevant to a very small amount of people and removed needs triage Issue is not yet ready for PR authors to take up labels Mar 11, 2025
@Stypox Stypox marked this as a duplicate of #11490 Mar 11, 2025
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GfEW commented Mar 20, 2025

I'm puzzled as to why a feature as ubiquitous as multi-selection of list items could be regarded as niche request. That part I doubt, because:

  1. "multi-select, then act on the selection" is a well established UI paradigm, and even "long-press to start selecting" got adopted by mobile mainstream ages ago;
  2. the number of users asking for multi selection in one media listing or another, or positively responding to issues doing so, does not indicate a particularly niche request,
    2.1 neither with respect to the general userbase being a vast multiple of the nerdy fraction that communicates via github,
    2.2 nor when compared to other NewPipe FRs that are not labeled niche.

That being said, great to see this long standing usability flaw get some dev attention, after all!

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