Files: icon for parent directory

The “go one level up” icon is a strong accent at the top of every subdirectory. Bit too strong? What if we remove the icon (or just fade it out a bit) and introduce some whitespace that way?

Now

No Icon

Fade Out (o-20)

Thoughts?

[lidel]

@jessicaschilling I like and agree with everything you suggested 👍

I believe support for drag&drop to breadcrumbs will be extremely useful pattern for quickly organizing files:

• when dragging a file or multiple checked files to breadcrumb, there should be visual indicator to make it very clear which crumb is the target
• (not sure if this is a real problem) perhaps after user drops file(s) on a crumb, there should be an option to choose if file should be moved or copied (different people / operating systems prefer / have different default action, this delegates the choice to the user)

[jessicaschilling]

@lidel If we’re offering actions on the current AND the parent directories (and presumably even parents of those parents, etc), it might make more sense to make those actions available from the breadcrumbs, as mentioned above.

What about …

• Enabling the right-click menu (that we currently have for items in the main table) for relevant breadcrumb items (inspect, copy CID, share, maybe even rename)
• To reinforce interactivity of the breadcrumbs, plus just to be nice, displaying a directory’s CID on hover of the breadcrumb (see below)
• Ideally you could even drag a file over the breadcrumb itself to drop a file into that directory in the breadcrumb trail, though realize this adds complexity to this work; right now we’re just exposing that whole files screen as the drag/drop surface, but that’s got its own UI quirks (I can drag something to the side nav?)

If we took the above steps, would then remove the “…” folders from the main file grid entirely.