Reduce number of wallets displayed using open wallet option #304

1. 
   ghost commented at 1:17 am on April 29, 2021: none

   Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

   I created lot of wallets to test something else related to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/21510

   

   Wanted to check how GUI works after having so many wallets and first thing I noticed is the time it takes to display wallets for “Open Wallet” option, number of wallets and the whole screen covered with these names. It doesn’t even include all the names and maybe they have gone out of the screen on right side.

   

   Describe the solution you’d like Only display name for default wallet and maybe 9 other wallets based on some criteria. Provide an option to mention name/path for other wallets to open.

   Describe alternatives you’ve considered Move the wallets to a different location.

2. unknown added the label Feature on Apr 29, 2021
3. 
   jarolrod commented at 1:42 am on April 29, 2021: member

   The GUI can’t be designed with every single use case in mind, this can be considered an edge case.

   If a user created this many wallets, we need to show them. It would be extremely surprising and annoying for most of someone’s wallets not show up.

   Besides that, there are performance issues and that can be looked into.

4. 
   ghost commented at 2:37 am on April 29, 2021: none

   If a user created this many wallets, we need to show them.

   All the wallets are not shown. Only what fits on one screen. If we need to show all wallets I think there are better ways to show it.

   It would be extremely surprising and annoying for most of someone’s wallets not show up.

   Normally lot of softwares show last few used files or projects in such lists and not everything. But provide an option to open other files. Or atleast arrange the list of files in a way that doesn’t look ugly or uses whole screen to show some of them.

5. hebasto removed the label Feature on May 1, 2021
6. hebasto added the label UX on May 1, 2021
7. 
   jarolrod commented at 5:58 pm on May 1, 2021: member

   I don’t think we should compare wallet files against, say, text files on a word processor. I think all wallets you create/import should be accessible. You shouldn’t have to go through steps to find it and open it.

   Things that can be improved, if there is consensus, is how we show the wallets list when there are many of them and the user has clicked the Open Wallet menu options.

   How does this look when you click on the dropdown menu to load wallets?

8. 
   ghost commented at 7:14 am on May 3, 2021: none

   How does this look when you click on the dropdown menu to load wallets?

   Which dropdown?

9. hebasto added the label Wallet on May 3, 2021

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