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Feature: Add support for selecting files in the Recent Files widget
What's the Problem?
Selecting recent files is something I'm really used to doing and I miss it
Solution/Idea
Being able to select recent files like normal files
Alternatives
Any other way of opening the context menu of more than one recent file
Files Version
2.3.7.0
Windows Version
Win 11 10.0.25179.1000
Comments
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+1 for this, Would like to be able to drag from recent files into software like I can in the native windows browser
Yeah I find this very unintuitive.
The response is that it's the same as start menu and jump lists, sidebar etc., but it's not the same.
Start menu is expected to be one click, it's a menu, all menus are single click, and so everything is one click in Start, and the most recent / recommended are 1 click because you have already clicked to open the menu, when you open a menu in the OS menu items are 1 click.
Again, in jump lists, you have right clicked to show a menu, menu items are single click. All right click menus are single click throughout the OS
Sidebars are menus too, they are essentially jump lists. It is intuitive for them to be single click, they don't open a new window every time you click on them
As a workaround, what about an option to double click instead of single click to open those items? Or an option to go to file location by default on single click. That would at least make it more intuitive and not open multiple windows every time you clicked on one.
The Home Page currently functions as a launcher, similar to the Sidebar in Files, and the home page in Edge. What these examples have in common is that they don't support selection and therefore only allow single-click interactions. However, we are exploring the possibility of adding selection support to the Home Page. This would change it from being a launcher into a standard folder view, and would add double-click functionality
I would really like to have double-click to open and single-click to select on Home page as well, the Info Pane would come in handy when selecting drives or recent documents.
