Re: [Design] lighten Dolphin’s Control menu

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,

2013/9/3 sinma:
> Thank you for answering. I’ve tried to take into account what you’ve said, and
> I think some little changes can improve Dolphin a lot.
>
>
> About «Undo»: you convinced me that move it on the toolbar is not worth it.
>
> About «View Mode»: I report that it duplicates the icons on the toolbar
> (<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324408>).
>
> About «Adjust View Properties»: this menu is duplicating «View Mode», «Sort
> by», «Additionnal Information», «Show in Groups» and «Show Hidden Files». Are
> there a good reason to keep it?

Yes. With the dialog, you can change the view properties not only for
the current directory, but also for its subdirectories.

> About the «Location Bar» submenu: seems pretty useless. What do you think
> about it?

I think that you should stop assuming that everything that you don't
use is useless. Do you have evidence that nobody uses these menu
entries?

> About the «Go» submenu: it’s not really useful because we can go anywhere we
> want

Note that there are no toolbar buttons for "Up" and "Home" In the default UI.

Would you also suggest to simplify Dolphin's UI by removing the "Back"
and "Forward" buttons from the tool bar? We can go anywhere we want
with the location bar, can't we?

> About the «Configure» submenu: nobody said that’s a bad idea. What do you
> think about it?

I think that it forces me to do one more click to access one of the
settings dialogs. Is there any evidence that this is better than
having these entries in the menu?

Frank