Improve navigation above `/home` for `selectDirectory()`

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
api, desktop

Research direction

Start with the selectDirectory() entry point and reproduce navigation to paths above /home, such as /media/usr/whatever_sd. Determine the intended GUI behavior and how the current dialog represents access. Done means users can navigate to these locations without manually entering the path or being misled about access.

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Description

Currently, if the user wants to go to:

/media/usr/whatever_sd

They have to click the 3 dots and write the path manually (or at least /media or / and navigate). Would it be possible to have a better GUI navigation experience with this? It throws the user to think that they actually don't have access to /media

Dominant language
R
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