DYN-6857-homepage-preferences

[dnenov]

Purpose

This PR addresses a jira request for improvement of the HomePage: As a Dynamo user, I want Grid/List view option picked on Dynamo Home persist across sessions https://jira.autodesk.com/browse/DYN-6857.

As a Dynamo user, I want Grid/List view option picked on Dynamo Home persist across sessions.

• Needs to be serialized
• Needs to persist across session
• Do not require user to set initial value
• Preferred to be migrated with newer version of Dynamo launch

We have examples in Preferences Settings just like this, e.g. Dynamo Window Default size, Dynamo Library Default size, etc. Although this setting is not expected to be exposed in settings panel

Works with the following HomePage changes: DynamoDS/DynamoHome#13

Declarations

Check these if you believe they are true

• The codebase is in a better state after this PR
• Is documented according to the standards
• The level of testing this PR includes is appropriate
• User facing strings, if any, are extracted into *.resx files
• All tests pass using the self-service CI.
• Snapshot of UI changes, if any.
• Changes to the API follow Semantic Versioning and are documented in the API Changes document.
• This PR modifies some build requirements and the readme is updated
• This PR contains no files larger than 50 MB

Release Notes

• added a single serialized property that unpacks into a dictionary of items which are sent to the front-end HomePage each time Dynamo is started
• the single property would allow any number of settings to be stored in the future without the need to alter the back-end side
• currently 2 properties are being sent from the front-end
• • recentPageViewMode
• • samplesViewMode

Reviewers

@QilongTang
@Amoursol

FYIs

@reddyashish

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[QilongTang]

Oops, I think I accidentally merged the wrong PR.. Will review now and depends on the result, we can see how to follow up

[QilongTang]

👍🏻

[QilongTang]

@dnenov Would you re-propose this PR?

[reddyashish]

I will create a new PR for this one as Deyan is going on leave.

[QilongTang]

I will create a new PR for this one as Deyan is going on leave.

Thank you, appreciate it!