D9826: [dolphin] Let users search everywhere

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D9826#189576, @michaelh wrote:
  
  > We don't need an extra button to search home. If you want to search home. Go to home and search from there.
  
  
  I have to disagree. Providing a facility to search all of ~ without having to first navigate there is useful. If we remove this functionality and require that users first navigate to ~ before initiating their search, I //guarantee// that it will confuse people and we will get bug reports about it.
  
  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D9826#189576, @michaelh wrote:
  
  > > I think wanting to use a GUI search tool to look through all of / actually is fairly rare
  >
  > For experienced users. But newbies who don't know where to look for logs or config files and don't know what to expect...?
  >  I, at least was hit by this and it confused me.
  
  
  Newbies don't go looking for log files or config files. :-) People who are technically proficient but new to KDE (like you?) know how to use `find` and can easily pick up `baloosearch`. If we do add a way to search /, we have to make sure it doesn't remove existing functionality, and also that it works properly, per what @elvisangelaccio mentioned.
  
  > @ngraham/VDG: I think the filesearch box needs to be changed. Please tell me a place where we can discuss my observations.
  
  https://t.me/vdgmainroom

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To: michaelh, #dolphin, elvisangelaccio
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