napari reader preferences are not respected

[maweigert]

Hi,

When drag/drop a zarr folder into napari while multiple plugins capable of reading zarr exists, the napari reader preference dialog is currently always displayed, without the option of saving the choice as part of the preferences (which is expected behavior).

I guess that might be due to a napari.manifest missing that would register a filename pattern, so simply adding this might already solve the issue.

Cheers,
M

PS: thanks a lot for the plugin, it's very useful!

[joshmoore]

Hey @maweigert. Thanks for the heads up! I assume this is equivalent to #27 (cc: @DragaDoncila) though now there are tools!

[maweigert]

Yep, napari.manifestshould register the reader (and filter for file extension, although I don't know whether that currently works for directory names as well)

[will-moore]

With https://github.com/ome/napari-ome-zarr/blob/main/napari_ome_zarr/napari.yaml using latest (not released yet) this seems to be working for me now:

Drag a folder onto napari for the first time:

After that, I can drag other path/to/image.zarr/ folders onto napari and they open without showing the dialog again.