Hey,

I know I may be asking too much, but maybe you would consider adding ability to share folders publicly via unique URL? Similar to what Google Photos does with URLs like
https://photos.app.goo.gl/waS6CqmxLP7nCSp89

I hope to use Files to manage my storage, which includes photos, and I want to be able to share some (but not all!) photos with my family, simply by sending them links.

Technically, it could work like this:

I click "share this folder";
a folder is assigned some random token (string);
I copy URL containing this token;
someone opens this URL:
- the "root" variable is set to this folder;
- "username"/"password" are unset;
- no write operations.

Right now, as an ugly workaround, I did the following:

added 'share.php' file:

setcookie('pho_share', urldecode($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']), time() + 86400, '/');
header('Location: /');

modified config.php:

$root = '...';
$share = $_COOKIE['pho_share'];
if ($share && $share != '/' && is_dir($root . $share)) {
  return array(
    'root' => $root . $share,
    'menu_enabled' => false
  );
} else {
  return array(
    'root' => $root,
    'username' => '...',
    'password' => '...',
    ...
  );
}