D16980: Return editable URL navigator to breadcrumb mode when it has focus and Ctrl+L is pressed

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In D16980#361533 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D16980#361533>, @dhaumann wrote:
  
  > I am not voting against this feature, but I use CTRL+L also in browsers. There, CTRL+L does two things:
  >
  > 1. it sets focus to the URL bar
  > 2. it selects all
  >
  >   In fact, sometimes I already have focus in the URL bar and used the cursors (or similar editing actions), so that the selection is gone. In this specific case, I indeed CTRL+L again to select all. Think of a "restart or reset" of my editing process.
  >
  >   Currently, Dolphin has the same behavior for me, which is consistent to what Firefox. Also ESCape currently turns back to breadcrumb view.
  >
  >   Opinions?
  
  
  That's all true, but the location bar in web browsers isn't multi-mode: it has no equivalent of the breadcrumbs mode. So it's not exactly the same UI. [Ctrl] + [A] can also be used to select all if you're already in the location bar, start typing something, and want to select everything, and it isn't any slower than using [Ctrl] + [L].
  
  I do see what you're saying, but consistency is only a virtue when the two things that are rendered consistent with one another are the same thing. Consistency in behavior between dissimilar things can be confusing or inappropriate at times.

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