File Dialog Design

There are many things we should do to extend the functionality and improve design of file dialogs.

A number of issues are already logged for this project, you can see them in the issue list.

This section is for discussions and ideas that we can form into issues and pull requests over time.

• Improve padding and layout of files
• Different view styles: list / tree / details with columns / big icons in a grid
• Render full names or shorten with ellipsis: Verylongfoldernam…
• Sync Favourites with the OS favourites
• Performance improvements for large directories (use Table perhaps?)
• Set initial directory
• text input, keyboard handling
• search
• multi select
• create directory
• path traversal (bread crumb) ?
  • can someone provide more information about how this would differ from the existin breadcrumb buttons?
• choosing extension/mime type filtering inside ui
  • is this not normally set by developers?
• sort by name, type, size, creation/modification time
• cloud storage providers