D19773: Update search bar following kde HIG

[Alexander Semke]

asemke added a comment.


  In D19773#433201 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D19773#433201>, @aacid wrote:
  
  > In D19773#431909 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D19773#431909>, @ngraham wrote:
  >
  > > In D19773#431826 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D19773#431826>, @aacid wrote:
  > >
  > > > Has the HIG updated  and decided the search label needs to be removed?
  > >
  > >
  > > Yes.
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  >
  > Can you point me to it? Because that's not what i saw in the HIG document that was linked from somewhere, the only thing i coudl find was "use ..."
  >
  > > 
  > > 
  > >> Anyone has a pointer as to why anyone would do that when there's no scarcity of horizontal space?
  > > 
  > > 1. This isn't always the case
  >
  > That's a very bad excuse, because in *ALL* the cases you've been removing t, it is not the problem.
  
  
  Cantor doesn't have a problem with the horizontal space, this is correct. However, having both - the label with the text "Find:" and the placeholder text "Find..." in the QLineEdit - doesn't look really nice IMHO. To see what I mean we can have a look at the project explorer in LabPlot:
  F6700618: image.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6700618>
  
  Here, bringing the placeholder text doesn't bring any additional value I think. It rather distracts human eyes. So, I'd like to clean up here, too. On the other side, using labels can bring an additional and clear structuring into the GUI sometimes. The placeholder text with some more informative text can act supporting here. E.g. in Cantor we could stay with the label with "Find:" and use for the placeholder text something like "Enter here the string you want to search for in the worksheet...". Here the additional value for the user is mentioning of the worksheet (we allow to search in the worksheet in this field and not in the help panel for example). But yes, at the end it's all about the consistency across the different applications...

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Cc: ngraham, aacid, kde-edu, narvaez, apol
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