lexrus / lexrus/LTFinderButtons

[feature request] browse up button

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Hi,
nice addons for the finder you've built. would it be possible for you to create a "browse up" button as well ? currently finder have only "browse left" and "browse right" buttons, as in: back and forward, like an internet browser. I miss a "browse up" button that would allow someone to "go up" in filesystem hierarchy, that is, go up to the enclosing directory no matter what the file browsing history one could have generated previously. there's an app that does this already, it's called
xtra finder. it's nice but it currently require users to completely disable macOS sip (using Big Sur and MBP M1 here). and also it have many features that I don't need, basically I just used it for its "browse up" button you can see in the screenshot. since you're more focused on creating additional toolbar buttons for the finder here, I'm making this feature request.
anyway thanks for what you've already done.

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Start by reviewing the existing Finder toolbar buttons that provide browse-left and browse-right behavior, then trace how they integrate with Finder navigation. The feature is done when a browse-up button reliably opens the enclosing directory regardless of prior browsing history; the issue does not name files or tests to run.

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macos
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desktop
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