Feature: Move settings item into Sidebar footers

[marcelwgn]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

This would align us more with other Windows apps.

Requirements

• The settings button is part of the footer items of the SideBar

Files Version

N/A

Windows Version

24H2

Comments

No response

[0x5bfa]

How far as we going?

• 1st option (easiest?)
  1. Use LocationItem at the bottom and have a custom logic like IsSettingsButton
  2. Add AnimatedIcon's states in SidebarItem's visual states.
• 2nd option (This would resolve the 2nd issue below)
  1. Create SidebarGroup (e.g. Pinned, Drives groups, etc) and SidebarItem (e.g. Home, each pinned files, detach drives, etc).
  2. Remove all custom logic for specific scenarios.
  3. Move to Files.App.Controls to isolate from Files.App

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[marcelwgn]

I think an approach similar to the second one would be best where we have a collection of "Footer items" that just gets rendered at the bottom (similar to NavigationView). Moving the control to Files.App.Controls is definitely something we should do.

[0x5bfa]

Wow, that's really amazing! Depending on LocationItem and SidebarItem having custom implementations for specific scenarios and SidebarView having its own view model (MainPageViewModel should be responsible for it) has been horrible. I'm really looking forward to its mitigation.