Do not show parent folders in favorites

[frankaellen]

Hey,

could we show only the folder name in the Favorites list and remove the ".../.../..." before? From a user perspective it feels a bit crowded and unnecessary information in that weight/size. See screenshot attached :)
Maybe we have to think about a component / design item that displays breadcrumbs within one list item instead.

All the best,
Franka

[LukasHirt]

Improvements from the current rework of files table:

[tbsbdr]

What is the path good for?

Prevent name collision: I think the path is useful to distinguish favored files with the same name and it gives some context (=orientation - "where is the file?").

My guess is, that in most usecases users favor mainly folders and only in some cases files (90% - 10% or so..).

Heuristics:

• Win 11 can only favorize "pin" only folders, no files
• MacOS can only favorize folders, no files
• found almost no requests in help-forums where users ask how to pin/favorize files

If it is true, that favoring files is a quite rare usecase, name collision would also be rare. (besides: name collision could also happen for folders, but is not prevented by design)

orientation: The tooltip displays the path, this should be sufficient for orientation.

Should we remove the path / parent folder?

--> Yes, I agree with Franka. I think we should on the one hand drop the path to gain more clarity in the files list on the other hand.

Enhancement: How to provide orientation for "isolated" files?

Maybe we have to think about a component / design item that displays breadcrumbs within one list item instead.

This task must also be solved for a proper search result list. As soon as we have a proper solution for the search results list, we can adapt "orientation" -pattern from there to the favorites.

[tbsbdr]

solved by #5953