(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #9) > IMO would be simple (i.e. no new UI and pref needed) to do this by just > making the already available quick filter "pin" not be affected by escape key I think the "pin" has a different function namely to make the filter criteria stick cross-folder, which is different from filter bar visibility. Conflating that does not look like a good idea to me. Users may want the bar to hang around always, but that doesn't mean that they also want their filte criteria to stick cross-folder.
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(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #9) > IMO would be simple (i.e. no new UI and pref needed) to do this by just > making the already available quick filter "pin" not be affected by escape key I think the "pin" has a different function namely to make the filter criteria stick cross-folder, which is different from filter bar visibility. Conflating that does not look like a good idea to me. Users may want the bar to hang around always, but that doesn't mean that they also want their filter criteria to stick cross-folder.