Feature: Add an option to use the default properties window

[Lamparter]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

Currently, you can shift-click the properties button to reveal the default Explorer properties window. However, there are some cases in which a user might need to use the default properties window a lot (the one in Files does not have every function) and in this case the user would need to shift-click every time. It would be better UX if there was a setting to enable or disable this.

Requirements

• Add setting to control which properties window appears
  • If it were set to the Explorer one shift-clicking the properties button would open the Files properties window

Files Version

3.8.5.0

Windows Version

10.0.22631.4391

Comments

No response

[yaira2]

Thank you for your feedback. We currently don't have plans to implement this feature as our goal is to make the properties window in Files as robust as possible. To accommodate users who rely on shell extensions, we've added an action as a temporary measure, but we don't have plans to make it more integrated than it already is.

[yaira2]

Please see #15196 for additional context.

[Lamparter]

Thank you