Allow collapsing/expanding of custom properties en-masse
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Description
When there are a lot of custom properties, it becomes cumbersome to look through the properties and find the results you want.
This is exaggerated by the default behaviour in Tiled which automatically expands all properties when you click on the object.
Here's an example

Would be much easier to read if we could "collapse/expand all".
It then becomes

Ideally it would remember these settings so you don't have to re-click collapse/expand
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating the Tiled custom-properties editor and its existing expansion-state handling, then check how editor settings are persisted. Done means users can collapse or expand all custom properties and the chosen state is remembered.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100