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# File Browser GUI: Planned Changes for 2.81 After the recent file browser UI design overhaul, we have a couple of TODOs stemming from own plans and user feedback. These we should probably do for 2.81: - [x] Add + and - buttons inside the name field (828905190e1, 2aa3e9c67c) - [ ] Store the last used File Browser settings (display type, thumbnail size etc). Store inside Preferences, just like Quick Favorites. - [ ] Make the Options sidebar open by default when saving images - [ ] Add preference for each temp window to either open as a window or the old full window temp state. (also move Render window option to Preferences for consistency then) - [x] Add click-in-empty-area-to-deselect to File Browser (42c062c98a) - [ ] Better handling of temp windows, so they don’t ’steal’ each others windows - [ ] Better handling of secondary windows so they always display on top ## Open Topics There's also lots of discussion on the `..` item to navigate to the parent directory. We are going to investigate the feasibility of the following first, this may be a fine alternative: - [ ] Smarter file path controls that work like clickable breadcrumbs, which also allow you to double-click to edit as text Lastly, the way options are displayed and toggled is not optimal: - [] Find & implement a better way to expose file operator options We didn't want to expose a huge empty side-bar for common cases like save & open, when there are really few settings. So idea was to have the sidebar hidden by default for these, with a prominent way to open it. That's why a big button on the left side-bar was chosen, with the obvious trade-off being that it opens a region on the right. We should re-evaluate on that and decide on a better solution, the trade-off is too apparent.

# File Browser GUI: Planned Changes for 2.81 After the recent file browser UI design overhaul, we have a couple of TODOs stemming from own plans and user feedback. These we should probably do for 2.81: - [x] Add + and - buttons inside the name field (828905190e1, 2aa3e9c67c) - [ ] Store the last used File Browser settings (display type, thumbnail size etc). Store inside Preferences, just like Quick Favorites. - [ ] Make the Options sidebar open by default when saving images, link/append, and possibly others - [ ] Add preference for each temp window to either open as a window or the old full window temp state. (also move Render window option to Preferences for consistency then) - [x] Add click-in-empty-area-to-deselect to File Browser (42c062c98a) - [ ] Better handling of temp windows, so they don’t ’steal’ each others windows - [ ] Better handling of secondary windows so they always display on top ## Open Topics There's also lots of discussion on the `..` item to navigate to the parent directory. We are going to investigate the feasibility of the following first, this may be a fine alternative: - [ ] Smarter file path controls that work like clickable breadcrumbs, which also allow you to double-click to edit as text Lastly, the way options are displayed and toggled is not optimal: - [] Find & implement a better way to expose file operator options We didn't want to expose a huge empty side-bar for common cases like save & open, when there are really few settings. So idea was to have the sidebar hidden by default for these, with a prominent way to open it. That's why a big button on the left side-bar was chosen, with the obvious trade-off being that it opens a region on the right. We should re-evaluate on that and decide on a better solution, the trade-off is too apparent.

# File Browser GUI: Planned Changes for 2.81 After the recent file browser UI design overhaul, we have a couple of TODOs stemming from own plans and user feedback. These we should probably do for 2.81: - [x] Add + and - buttons inside the name field (828905190e1, 2aa3e9c67c) - [ ] Store the last used File Browser settings (display type, thumbnail size etc). Store inside Preferences, just like Quick Favorites. - [ ] Make the Options sidebar open by default when saving images, link/append, and possibly others - [ ] Add preference for each temp window to either open as a window or the old full window temp state. (also move Render window option to Preferences for consistency then) - [x] Add click-in-empty-area-to-deselect to File Browser (42c062c98a) - [ ] Better handling of temp windows, so they don’t ’steal’ each others windows - [ ] Better handling of secondary windows so they always display on top ## Open Topics There's also lots of discussion on the `..` item to navigate to the parent directory. We are going to investigate the feasibility of the following first, this may be a fine alternative: - [ ] Smarter file path controls that work like clickable breadcrumbs, which also allow you to double-click to edit as text Lastly, the way options are displayed and toggled is not optimal: - [] Find & implement a better way to expose file operator options We didn't want to expose a huge empty side-bar for common cases like save & open, when there are really few settings. So idea was to have the sidebar hidden by default for these, with a prominent way to open it. That's why a big button on the left side-bar was chosen, with the obvious trade-off being that it opens a region on the right. We should re-evaluate on that and decide on a better solution, the trade-off is too apparent.