Feature: Add Windows File Explorer detail layout columns to Files

[Mannshoch]

What's the Problem?

I use a third party application. This application add a file property to explorer. That way I could add it as column to the Explorer "Detail view" (right-click on header context-menu).
I need this property in a specific directory and all of it's subdirectory.

Solution/Idea

At moment the Column settings allows only to tick 4 properties. Please add the list from Windows Explorer.

Alternatives

Windows Explorer

Priorities

Capability	Priority
show file properties that also Explorer support	Should
show file properties third application add to explorer	Could

Files Version

2.1.13.0

Windows Version

Windows 10 - 10.0.19044 (no Pause/Break key)

Comments

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[yaira2]

@winston-de is there a way to automate this instead of manually creating columns in the xaml? If not, we might have to wait for a modern DataGrid control from WinUI.

[winston-de]

possible? probably.
feasible? probably not.

it would require a lot of interesting things, like manually adding column definitions to the grid in code behind, as well as the bindings. And of course, the fun part is when something changes, and you have to manually update every single row.

[ArtexJay]

Definitely would love to have bitrates for audio files and the other options for details pane. Seems like i use it often.

[Unknown6656]

I'd also love to have a column with the hash-value of a file (i.e. SHA1 or MD5 or CRC32/CRC64) for quick comparisons in huge directories.

[aaronnewcomb]

+1 to more columns, please! This is probably the only feature keeping me from using Files as my daily driver.

[yaira2]

Thanks for all the feedback! Most recently we made some progress on the code to auto generate columns, but there is still some work to do before we can implement this.

[Mantej-Singh]

Thank you for working on this feature, I appreciate your work

[quietrobot]

Thanks to all of you guys for helping develop this feature. 💪🏻

[Draise14]

Yeah, this would be very nice.