Suggestion: A Simple Quality-of-life Enhancmement for the Commodities Screen

The current mechanism for filtering the commodities list is ok, but I find that in its current form it is not really as useful as it could be. It is generally more work to go and toggle on the filter I want, than to just scroll through the commodities list. The reason for this is that there are really only two filters I typically want to use - the "present in cargo" filter, which I only ever want to use in the "Sell" screen, and typically always want enabled, and the "required by a mission" filter, which I only ever want in the "Buy" screen, and then only very occasionally.

Trouble is, if I turn on "Present in Cargo" when selling, I then have to go turn it off again if I want to buy something - which is often the very next thing I want to do!

What I think could make this work much better would be one small change to the logic:
  • Make the filter settings for the "Buy" and "Sell" screens separate and independent. If you turn on "Present in Cargo" in the "Sell" screen, it only applies to the "Sell" screen, and not to the "Buy" screen.
On a side note, I always have all the filters "cleared", which acts as if there are no filters applied even though it claims "filters active" on the UI. This is much more useful than having all the filters set, as it means I can easily turn on or off "present in cargo" or "required by a mission" with a single click in the filter list instead of two.
 
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