T8349: Improve Places panel usability and presentation

[Nathaniel Graham]

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TASK DESCRIPTION
  Right now, by default the Places panel shows a small number of user places, and a large number of Virtual places of questionable utility (4 Search For entries, 4 Recently Saved entries. Overall the signal-to-noise ratio is low, and usability could be better.
  
  Let's consider the following changes:
  
  [ ] Add at least Desktop and Downloads to the default Places section, in a nod to real-world user workflows (see D10245#201638 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D10245#201638>)
  [ ] Remove Root from the Places section; it's redundant and that location can always be accessed from a disk in the Devices section, which is visible by default
  [ ] Hide the Recently Saved > This Month and Recently Saved > Lath Month entries by default; they're of questionable utility to feature so prominently, and the functionality is available from the Find panel anyway. Maybe remove them from the default Places panel entirely?
  [ ] Implement collapsible Places panel sections: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389803
  [ ] Make Search For entries collapsed by default (i.e. available and accessible, but with the entries invisible until the header is expanded)
  [ ] Improve or change the Recently Saved items or the `recentdocuments:/` KIO slave to include files that were recently opened and created by non-KDE programs, and make sure whichever one we choose is visible by default at the top of the Places panel, as it's arguably the most contextually relevant tool for many file-based workflows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357542
  [ ] Add a Tags section, and put it at the very bottom (maybe even collapsed by default): D7700 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D7700>
  
  Thoughts?

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/T8349

To: ngraham
Cc: rkflx, #dolphin, ngraham, spoorun, navarromorales, isidorov, firef, andrebarros, emmanuelp
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