elgavon I was thinking of something like this earlier, but decided to postpone the idea because of technical challenges. It's difficult to combine this feature with modal in normal (overlay) mode, and this inline view is only useful for large screens where everything can fit comfortably.
Seeing your nice demonstration, I would definitely like to consider this feature, because it would be very useful.
Some challenges that come to mind:
- We need a button to toggle open/close.
- How to deal with "no items" selected or empty dir.
- How to deal with multiple items selected.
- Since this solution doesn't "overlay" anything on click, it begs for keyboard navigation
- Kinda requires opening files in the inline view without actually clicking them.
- What happens to photos? They would open inline when clicked, but then how to open them in popup, which is default, and normally superior for viewing images?
There are some compromises, but it would definitely be a nice feature.