Hexerator wishlist

[crumblingstatue]

My egui project, Hexerator has switched from rfd to egui-file-dialog, but right now it's using a fork with custom patches to accommodate Hexerator's needs. The eventual goal is to not have a fork, and just depend on upstream egui-file-dialog directly. This is a wishlist of features that currently a fork is required for.

• [x] 1.) Ability to modify pinned folders directly. I have some Hexerator specific pinned folders that I want Hexerator to manage, instead of relying on user-wide pinned folders. It shouldn't even require "persistence" to work, since I want to store the folders myself, without relying on egui-file-dialog to do it for me. Downstream patch: Make FileDialogConfig and DirectoryEntry public. This way, the pinned folders can be read and written to by the application.
• [x] 2.) Home shortcut key I'm (and likely many other) unix users expect the ~ key to work to access the home directory quickly. Maybe this should have a different default on windows, although I don't see an obvious choice for what it should be on windows, so maybe it's fine for it to be ~ there as well. Downstream patch: Add home_edit_path key binding

[fluxxcode]

1: Are the quick access sections not suitable for this? \ You can add your own sections via the backend:

file_dialog = FileDialog::default()
    .add_quick_access("Hexerator", |s| {
        s.add_path("Some path 1", "./path-1");
        s.add_path("Some path 2", "./path-2");
    })

And you can access the config with file_dialog.config_mut().

[crumblingstatue]

And you can access the config with file_dialog.config_mut().

Ah, good catch. I think I used to need that because the storage and config were two different structs, and I was getting overlapping borrows by borrowing the config through config_mut(&mut self), and also trying to access the storage.

But now the storage is in the config, so it's fine that config_mut() borrows self.

I'll cross that one off the list.

[fluxxcode]

The shortcut key is now implemented.

Let me know if you have any other ideas!