Addon: Added button to open folder with Addons

[tarman3]

[chennes]

It's a good idea, but we've clearly got too many buttons down at the bottom there. Are you interested in a slightly larger refactoring that would compress everything but "Check for updates" into a single drop-down "gear" menu?

[tarman3]

Excuse me, I didn't understand what exactly you offer
Combine several functions into one button with a drop down list ?

[chennes]

Yes: to make "Refresh local cache", "Python dependencies...", and "Open Addons Folder" all into a single button with a drop-down menu. This is itself a stopgap solution, the Addon Manager has grown to the point where the whole UI needs to be redesigned, but that's going to be a larger team effort (of course).

[tarman3]

Can you tell a place in Freecad, where this has already been implemented?
My developer capabilities are very low

[chennes]

The other places it's done in FreeCAD are in C++, so they probably won't help you as an example. What's needed is a QToolButton with its ToolButtonPopupMode set to MenuButtonPopup, and then a QMenu attached to it. That might be enough to get your AI tool of choice to get you started, but if not I can merge this PR as-is and then make the adjustment in another pass.

[tarman3]

I prefer to merge as-is
Later I will try to solve this task with popup button

Thank you

[chennes]

OK great. I've merged the change, but haven't pushed it back to the main FreeCAD repo yet -- I have a few other things I'm working on now, but should be able to do that by the end of the week. Thanks again for the PR.

[tarman3]

Something turns out ))