[dolphin] [Bug 481392] The line seperating the attached side panel from the main view should imho stop where it meets the horizontal line above the status bar

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481392

--- Comment #2 from 31113 at tuta.io ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> The current look is intentional, sorry. If the line didn't go all the way to
> the bottom, then the sidebar would lack an unbroken visual line that makes
> it clearly look like a sidebar as in other KDE apps with sidebars.

I never had an issue with that line in other apps, so I went through a bunch of
kde apps to see what's different here. I think I have identified it. 

In other apps, the sidebar usually has a different background colour than the
bottom bar below the main view, or  -in absence of a bar at the bottom - the
main view itself. 

Also, there are some other kde apps that also have a status bar at the bottom,
for example kid3, filelight and kate, and there the line and the sidebar
usually end above the status bar and the horizontal line above the status bar
goes all the way across. Though it is noteworthy that unlike in those examples,
in dolphin the status bar contents have always been limited to only below the
main view.

So there is in my opinion some inconsistency, but my proposed solution was
false. Unless you really just want to keep it as it is (in which case, okay,
fine, I'll get used to it), I have two (and a half) other ideas for your
consideration based on my observations above.

1. Change the colour of the sidebar to match the main view instead of the
status bar. -> looks like, for example, systemsettings pages that have a bar at
the bottom

2. Change the colour of the sidebar to match the main view instead of the
status bar and make the horizontal line above the statusbar extend all the way
across and stop the vertical line of the sidebar above the statusbar -> looks
like, for example, kate, filelight, kid3

(2b. Same as 2., without changing the colour of the sidebar. -> looks like no
other app, but I can see the argument that having a different colour for the
main view and  the sidebar just looks better in a file manager.)

If you don't want to do any of that, that's also fine, I'm not going to annoy
you any further

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