D12077: Show view mode buttons in the open/save dialog's toolbar

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In D12077#246406 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12077#246406>, @rkflx wrote:
  
  > Ah, small misunderstanding: I was mainly referring to not making Above filename (in conjunction with Short View) the overall default for the dialog. If Detailed (Tree) View was the default, changing the mode of Short View is probably fine.
  
  
  Great. I could get on board with making Detailed Tree View the default.
  
  In D12077#246406 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12077#246406>, @rkflx wrote:
  
  > We could also add a third button
  
  
  I wouldn't be against that in principle, but that's much more challenging since icons-on-top vs icons-on-the-side is currently a setting that applies to Short View, not two separate views the way they are in Dolphin. Separating those out would be a big headache due to the way the data is stored, and furthermore if we separated that out into Icons View and Details View, then there would be five modes, unless we also removed Detailed View and Tree View... All in all I think that would be desirable, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that quite yet.
  
  In D12077#246406 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12077#246406>, @rkflx wrote:
  
  > so it would work just like in Dolphin (needs removing Reload, but who is using that anyway, because it's not even present in Dolphin? See also D12215 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12215> ;).
  
  
  ...and D12218 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12218>. :)
  
  > Regarding your examples of primarily "visual" documents: I acknowledge that's one of the uses cases. However, please understand that here we are building a generic dialog. It also has to work for save (where previews do not make much sense, because you are mainly selecting a directory and then typing the filename manually), and for all other filetypes where you'd rather have long names than a big icon. The unifying theme for all items is the filename, not the preview! IOW, your use case is only a subset of all possible cases, but the default choice should fit all situations. Of course your work in making it easier to switch is important here, too…
  
  Yep, that was the point. :)

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