Review Request 121375: dolphin: configure status bar items with button instead of right click

Gregor Mi codestruct at posteo.org
Fri Dec 12 11:57:34 GMT 2014



> On Dec. 7, 2014, 9:42 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether this is desirable given we have these options in Dolphin's settings as well and imho these aren't modified that often that they would deserve that much attention.
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> Emmanuel Pescosta wrote:
>     Thanks for the patch!
>     
>     > I'm not sure whether this is desirable given we have these options in Dolphin's settings as well and imho these aren't modified that often that they would deserve that much attention.
>     
>     +1
>     
>     > So what about making the "Space information" item visible by default
>     
>     I think that the (blocky) space info bar will be irritating for people, who prefer clean and easy interfaces.
>     We should ask the VDG what they think about showing the space information by default and what they think about the space info bar in general.
>     IMHO: I would replace it by a simple status text (easy fix for bug 318395) and remove the show/hide option completely.
> 
> andreas kainz wrote:
>     Hi +1 for the clean and easy interface and +1 for ask the VDG.
>     
>     I ask in the VDG Hangout and the result about customize the interface was to support something like Firefox customize mode as Thomas write in his blog (http://sessellift.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/shared-values-%E2%87%92-shared-ideas-what-we-can-learn-from-firefox-australis/).
>     
>     So if you think this would be a good idea and you would like to support this idea, it would be a pleasure for the VDG to support you.
>     
>     For the status bar there is a HIG. If you would like to discuss the status bar and the space information. please start a forum thread at the VDG forum.

I opened a discussion about the topic here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=124042


- Gregor


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On Dec. 12, 2014, 11:39 a.m., Gregor Mi wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 12, 2014, 11:39 a.m.)
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> Review request for Dolphin.
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> Repository: kde-baseapps
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> Description
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> Suggestion to make the possiblity of having different status bar items more discoverable: introduce a configure button on the right side instead having to right click for the context menu. Screenshot: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/12/07/plasma-desktopcn2012.png
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> EDIT: I am aware that adding another visual element to the clean GUI of dolphin might not be welcomed. And in this case probably also not needed because my point is the following: I find the "Space information" item very useful. But it is currently not visible by default. I found it only accidently back then. New users would surely not be repelled by this additional information. So what about making the "Space information" item visible by default (see kde-baseapps/dolphin/build/src/dolphin_generalsettings.cpp, line 90)?
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> Diffs
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>   dolphin/src/statusbar/dolphinstatusbar.h 1a4ccf682fb0dbe361d6f2cbc23a209d7f9c1ddc 
>   dolphin/src/statusbar/dolphinstatusbar.cpp 166f6ab14411efb0aec163609807b2b2723b5aca 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121375/diff/
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> Testing
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> Click on the new button, see the menu, click the items and watch how the status bar changes the same way it did with the context menu.
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> Thanks,
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> Gregor Mi
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