Feature: Add action to collapse & expand sidebar

[Hasan-01]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

A keyboard shortcut to toggle the sidebar on and off would be helpful.

Requirements

• This proposal will accomplish X
• This proposal will accomplish Y
• This proposal will accomplish Z

Files Version

3.6.0.0

Windows Version

10.0.22631.3880

Comments

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[Josh65-2201]

Thanks for the feedback, I have added this to the project board.

[yair100]

Can you clarify what you mean by turning the sidebar on or off?

[Hasan-01]

I mean this:

[mdtauk]

So a Collapse action as a keyboard shortcut.

Do we want an action for setting it to the Overlay mode via keyboard too? Regardless of Window size.

[yair100]

Thanks for clearing that up! We actually had a keyboard shortcut for toggling the sidebar, but it got left out when we revamped the sidebar (funny enough, it was exactly a year ago!). We initially planned to reintroduce it, but it didn’t happen due to a lack of interest. We’re happy to move forward with this if interest picks up. Before committing to this feature, we’ll keep this issue open for a while to gauge community interest

https://github.com/files-community/Files/pull/13052/files#diff-8f73572d36ee4bb40aa3cda8358f70950a57d03ca40cb0b98e02e1e3fe217e27

[yair100]

@ninadch06 we're currently waiting to see if there is enough interest in this issue before moving forward with it. You can check the status of an issue from the right side of the page.