[Design] lighten Dolphin’s Control menu

[sinma]

Hello,


I really like the interface of Dolphin but it drives me mad that the «Control» 
menu is a big mess of useless entries.

Look at the what the «Control» menu is now (I don’t represent what is useless 
for my talk):

Undo
Select All
Invert Selection
---
View Mode               >
Sort by                 >
Additionnal Information >
Show in Groups
Show Hidden Files
---
Reload
Adjust View Properties
---
Panels                  >
Location Bar            >
---
Go                      >
Tools                   >
                             Show Filter Bar
                             Compare Files
                             Open Terminal
                             Select Remote Charset
Configure Shortcuts…
Configure Toolbars…
Configure Dolphin…
Help                    >
Show Menubar


What can we say about that? Here’s my vision (so don’t worry about the «must» 
etc, just easier to say than «maybe it’s better to…»):

* «Undo» must be an icon on the toolbar, the user will have more chance to 
find it when he do a mistake
* «View Mode» must be placed on the toolbar (more intuitive, like any other 
file manager, the redundance is useless)
* «Additionnal Information» isn’t used frequently and must be in «Configure 
Dolphin» for consistency.
* «Reload» is not useful for most people, because Dolphin take care of 
reloading the view (or at least to display almost immediately the change in 
the working directory).
* «Adjust View Properties» must be in «Configure Dolphin» like «Additionnal 
Information».
* «Location Bar» is useless because it’s easier to clic on the path than going 
into this submenu.
* The «Go» submenu is useless, it’s just a garbage from the old Dolphin UI 
because it’s duplicating features that are already accessible in one clic in 
the toolbar.
* The «Tools» submenu is useless.
** «Show Filter Bar» must be placed in the toolbar, at the left of the «Find» 
icon (and maybe renamed because it’s its name is a bit confusing for the noob 
I think). By the way, when clicking the second time on «Show Filter Bar» or 
«Find», it must close the previously opened bar.
** «Compare Files» must be in the right-clic menu when you have selected two 
or more files.
** «Open Terminal» is not used frequently and is accessible in the right-clic 
→ Actions submenu.
** «Select Remote Charset»… has anyone used it in his/her life? I know users 
don’t like when we remove features but it’s possible to add it to the toolbar.
* The «Configure *» menus can be regrouped in a «Settings» sub-menu like the 
other KDE software UI, so it’s more consistent.
* The «Show Menubar» is not used frequently, so it may be better to move it to 
the configuration dialog or get rid of it.

Finally, the «New» menu you can add in the toolbar must also be there by 
default (more intuitive than right-clic on a blank space), next to «Undo».

So it gives me the following:

Select All
Invert Selection
---
Sort by           >
Show in Groups
Show Hidden Files
Panels            >
---
Settings          >
                       Configure Shortcuts…
                       Configure Toolbars…
                       Configure Dolphin…
Help              >


Cleaner, isn’t it? Don’t forget that most of the functions aren’t deleted, 
because either there’s a better way to acces it (easier to find and/or quicker 
to use), or it’s deported in the toolbar.


Thanks for reading, and please tell me what do you think.

P.-S.: don’t hesitate to point mistakes, I’m not native english so it’s always 
good to know how I fail to correct myself.