FR: Keep the UI as minimal as possible

[baur]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I find FileBrowser to be a powerful and increasingly production-ready tool with rich functionality, — thank you for your great work! please keep on.

However, I'd like to keep the UI as minimal as possible. Each additional option button changes app behavior, and many users (following the 80/20 rule) often perceive this as a bug rather than a feature.

Describe the solution you'd like

Since issue #437, several enhancements have been introduced to simplify the interface. I would like to propose an optionaly to hide specific UI elements like the ones shown below, to make the interface cleaner.

Sidebar should remain visible, but without the settings buttons, which are not needed for most end users:

Search options could be hidden, especially in use cases like ours where only Office and plain text documents are served:

I think ctrl select is enough

[gtsteffaniak]

I could make all configurable in user settings, that's a great idea

[Thirukumaran-T]

i'll like to work on this enhancement , will someone please assign it to me ?

[gtsteffaniak]

Yeah this is a great issue to pick up, ill assign it to you.

The workflow is roughly:

1. add property for userDefaults in settings with description
2. update user to include the same property (should be a non-admin editable property)
3. Update frontend to use it in the sidebar using state.user
4. Update settings to allow toggling the change on or off (don't forget to add it to the saved properties)

[gtsteffaniak]

will add these features in 0.7.12 this week.

[sjthuss]

I have a related request, hopefully it's ok to add it in here. When you mouse over the sources, an info popup appears which obscures the source list and it's hard to see where you are clicking. Would it be possible to put this info under a sub menu, or even just have an option to disable the popup?