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Feature: Ability to have different layouts for widgets on the home page

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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem?**
Current files only allows a tile layout to be shown for the new tab page for widgets. It would be nice to be able to have different views showing different type of information, like file explorer does.

**Describe the solution**
Allowing different views like file explorer. Examples:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3755345/120859578-b0f2f700-c584-11eb-9c0d-cd7aac4d8fa1.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3755345/120859589-b5b7ab00-c584-11eb-9e52-e6c0313ab635.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3755345/120859599-b94b3200-c584-11eb-898a-7b7cebd410ce.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3755345/120859629-c405c700-c584-11eb-92fb-1804c1c2c54c.png)

Notice the content view actually shows more information to the user, like file system being in use by the drives.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
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**Scope**

| Capability | Priority |
| :---------- | :------- |
| This proposal will allow end users to have different view layouts for the widget/new tab view | Must |
| This proposal will allow end users to have a content like view layout for the new tab view showing more information like the filesystem being used | Should |

**System Information**
- OS Version: Windows 10 Insider Preview [10.0.21382.1 (co_release.210511-1416)]
- App version: v1.5.0.0

**Additional comment**
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