D7700: Show list of tags in PlacesView

[Mark Gaiser]

markg added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D7700#148256, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > If we make a new panel, we incur the following disadvantages:
  >
  > 1. Lots of extra work, increasing the chance that it won't get done. We already have working code to add it to the Places panel.
  > 2. Assuming we make a new Tags panel, if we don't make it visible by default, almost nobody will ever see it, negating the purpose of adding the feature and keeping the overall Tags feature very un-discoverable.
  > 3. If we *do* make the new Tags panel visible by default, it will compete for vertical space currently used by the Places and Folders panels, and people will probably close it if it's visible by default, and not open it in the first place if it's not.
  >
  >   I know that technically Tags aren't places, but the advantage of putting this in Places is that people will actually see it and use it. If we put it somewhere else, especially in a not-visible-by-default panel, I worry that the work will be essentially wasted.
  
  
  
  
  1. That is the wrong mentality. Just the fact that "it works in places" doesn't mean that it should be there. It means the current path is the easiest one to get the fastest results, but refactoring later on would still be needed.
  2. I'd like to propose to make a new panel **and** make it visible by default! You'd get my vote for that (granted that it is performant).
  3. That argument is moot. The tags would always compete for vertical space regardless of it's implementation. Also, (if enabled obviously) it would always be visible regardless of vertical size. Dolphin has no mechanism to auto hide panels of the space becomes too small, it just adds scrollbars if it does.
  
  Lets make this great and expandable for the future (aka, add the colors later on and make it look fancy).

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