Make grouping/foldering left navigation menu items possible

tadavid-cae commented 1 year ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

With the increasing number of awesome tools the main tool selector menu is started to get cumbersome. It would be nice to have some kind of grouping like: We could have predefined categories like:

Input:
- Keyboard Manager
- Mouse utilities
- Quick Accent

Workflow:
- Awake
- Color Picker
- Power Toys Run
- Video Conference Mute
- Shortcut Guide

File System:
- File Locksmith
- File Explorer add-ons
- Hosts File Editor
- Image Resizer
- Power Rename

Window:
- Always On Top
- Screen Ruler
- Fancy Zones

In the future users should be able to create custom folders/groups.

Scenario when this would be used?

Find any tool fast.

Supporting information

No response

crutkas commented 1 year ago

@niels9001 do we actually have a tracking item for this? We've been thinking about it for a bit.

niels9001 commented 1 year ago

@niels9001 do we actually have a tracking item for this? We've been thinking about it for a bit.

I think there might be seperate issues around the topic of the NavView.. @jaimecbernardo @Aaron-Junker do you know by any chance?

Aaron-Junker commented 1 year ago

@niels9001 do we actually have a tracking item for this? We've been thinking about it for a bit.

I think there might be seperate issues around the topic of the NavView.. @jaimecbernardo @Aaron-Junker do you know by any chance?

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/20308 is a simmilar issue, but not really the same.

crutkas commented 5 months ago

FYI for a rough proposal (via @niels9001 doing an amazing mock)

dtap001 commented 5 months ago

omg!!!! looking very good! <3

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