+1 on this. It would be great to be able to hide the default checkboxes, maybe just leave a note saying how many jobs are selected.
BTW this request fits one of the "version 1.x ideas" listed on the plugin page at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/View+Job+Filters :
These features are not entered as JIRA tickets because technically no one is requesting them. If you want one of these features, please Enter a JIRA Ticket and the feature will probably be added within a week.
Retrofit existing filters to be default extensions (like the way columns work). Justifications are
Allow for other views besides list view to more easily make use of them (for example, the status filter wasn't picked up by other views)
Minor benefit is that if you have hundreds of jobs, your view edit screen is cluttered by the list of jobs when all you wanted was a regex or a status. So, you could delete any filters you don't want to see and they won't show up again. Another strategy to handle this might simply be a checkbox titled "hide view list". However, this would obscure the fact that often a job is added to a view accidentally by clicking the "new job" link while on that view.
+1 on this. It would be great to be able to hide the default checkboxes, maybe just leave a note saying how many jobs are selected.
BTW this request fits one of the "version 1.x ideas" listed on the plugin page at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/View+Job+Filters :