Inventory UI Rework

[shiftyscales]

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

The existing inventory UI is old, clunky, and has several known issues.

Describe the solution you'd like

Remaking the inventory UI to be something more fully-featured, and polished.

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional Context

Making this issue as a 'hub issue' as a separate work item to track dependencies/blockers related to this work. E.g.:

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[Frooxius]

Some notes on what's planned for the inventory UI rework:

• The UI will be reworked using the new data feed system, allowing you to make your own inventories or modify the UI whichever way you want easily
• Search will be natively supported
• Functionality to move/rename items (both saved items and folders)
• Ability to have multiple inventory views - e.g. placing a facet with quick access to folders on your hands or making more views and tabs
• Ability to view metadata of saved items without spawning them (e.g. amount of assets, texture data, total geometry and so on)
• Better item saving flow with visualization of items that are currently being synced
• Favorites, recent items/folders & folder hierarchy browser
• Native support for locally stored items for saving/browsing items locally

[FlameSoulis]

One thing that I'm unsure if it'd fall under this or not would be the thumbnail loading: if you have many items in a folder, the client doesn't like that and chugs when loading more than 20 item folders.

That said, having more functionality is already a major selling point of this ticket.

[Frooxius]

I'd say for now that falls under. The goal is to make the new inventory UI responsive and fast using the new systems, so we'll see how those handle sudden burst of thumbnails.

If it turns out that to make that smoother needs to be addressed by another thing - e.g. say optimizations of loading of assets and such, we'll split if off at that point.