What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

Please tell me if you wish me to open multiple feature request, but i won't be llm-verbose and go straight to the point of what is bad.

1. Enable scroll wheel tab

(just like Firefox about:config toolkit.tabbox.switchByScrolling)

2. Remove the top 15px between the tab and the window

It's useless and only add frustration when quick mouse movement to bounce at top pixel to quick change tab instead of targeting specific area 15px under.

3. Enable back the top navbar

It's easier to quickly add network drive, open windows parameters, the old-uninstaller (that work faster than new win ones) the computer-manager (to fastly manage disk partitions or user password)

As well as view hidden files, enable files extensions by default, and open previz/details(metadata) sidebar.

4. Make big-bar default back

It's easier to view the size of your disk by default.

5. Put back default right click in settings

For those that are not dumb to notice the 80ms wasted to hide the default right click only to show me a stripped down version :/ or at least try to read all registery to integrate everything back and pre-load it to drawcall in less than 2ms

6. Add back every sort by (size, date created, etc..)

It's better to be able to sort by image pixel size, or gps-metadata-present, or whatever.

7. Add alternating row colors option

(only for visibility, with possibility to chose the color value from a rgb-picker similar to blender color-wheel with selection using rgb, hsv, or hexadecimal).

8. The quick filter by groupe date should allow to click to a date

Currently it only switch between the group section quick display and back to where it was (instead of having a one click on one section to get to this section quickly)

9. Split pane should be made from drag and drop tab

Currently the option is as dumb as split pane in windows terminal, it shouldn't be made like that but instead using the tab option, one should be able to drag and drop the tab to a split section (with preview of the section cut before releasing) (a bit like notepad++ does but it's dumb as it pop-over what one wish to do instead of realtime preview the split using ghost-ui.
(also add another way to close the split instead of having to slide the split fraction to one side or the other à la blender).

10. Add the option of extrem fast search using pre-indexed sql

Just like everything but by default in the windows explorer instead.

11. Add other visualisation methods

Like colored-aged file like one-commander

Or column view :

Or size display like wizztree (or filetree/windirstart for legacy softwares, tho filetree has smarter ui / shader for zoom in subfolder)

12. Overall extremly fast preloading

Not like windows 11 react dumb integration , something actually decent like filepilote made using modern api like custo-vulkan instead of winui (and using gamedev design). Currently, it is around 5fps on my workstation when resizing folder (like 20 folder present); It could go as far as 300fps in theory.

13. Use of fake folder

Wouldn't it be amazing to have a file "present" (well linked) in multiple folders at the same time? (à la notion / eagle.cool); that would allow better organization without taking more disk size. Such system are already present in notion for example and already exist as soft-link or shortcuts but aren't well integrated/intuitive. It could also be rework of current tag system to work with smart filter/tag system similar to tagspace but less ugly/more usable?

14. Right-click manager

Wouldn't it be really really amazing if one had the option to vibecode script to add anything to his right-click pannel (a la userscript). People could create community addon such as file-converter , copy-path , create-py, or any other things that could be really powerfull for either quick prototyping using a framework instead of being on os-level (reinventing the wheel) and have a potential marketplace of usefull tool industries have same needs in common.

I would have so many other things to add (that either fit or doesn't the scope of this repo), but i'll restrain myself to those 14 affordance for now. I hope this isn't too much off-topic and those features could actually be relevant in your design decisions for the future of this tool (that unfortunately is too featureless for me to be part of my usage, so i won't be present a lot here, but once i manage to get myself 2k€ of claude-code and 6month of dev time, i may fork ideas from this program and implement them in another software (linux based as msft seem to make some decisions that want me to escape this os entirely, and since the rise of valve money in the linux ecosystem, i think it could be good time to participate in the future yotld)

Requirements

tl;dr :
Scroll wheel tab switching - Like Firefox's tab scrolling feature
Remove 15px top gap - Eliminate dead space above tabs for easier clicking
Restore classic toolbar - Quick access to network drives, system settings, hidden files toggle
Show disk space by default - Display drive capacity in main view
Legacy right-click option - Skip 80ms delay, show full context menu with all registry items
All sort options - Restore sorting by image size, GPS metadata, custom properties
Alternating row colors - Optional zebra striping with RGB color picker
Clickable date groups - Jump to sections instead of just toggling collapse/expand
Drag-drop tab splitting - Split panes by dragging tabs, like Notepad++ but with live preview
Built-in Everything search - Pre-indexed SQL-based instant file search integration
Alternative views - Add color-coded file age, column view, treemap size visualization (WizTree-style)
Modern performance - Vulkan-based rendering for 300fps instead of current 5fps lag
Virtual file linking - Files appear in multiple folders without duplication (like Notion/TagSpaces)
Right-click script manager - User-scriptable context menu with community addon marketplace

Files Version

4.0.21.0

Windows Version

Windows 10 Pro - 22H2 - 19045.6466

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