D22594: [Dolphin] Open Preferred Search Tool action

[F. Fox]

firef added a comment.


  In D22594#498890 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22594#498890>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > As for the feature itself, for the past few years I'd been opposed to this, on the basis that people should just use the built-in Baloo-based search instead. But unfortunately the requests keep coming in, and there are use cases that Baloo doesn't work for (e.g. on external disks), so there does seem to be a need, or at least a desire. And we do already have this accessible from the search panel, so this is basically just a shortcut to that. I'll give this patch a fair shake.
  
  
  I am unsure whether //"basis that people should just use the built-in Baloo-based search instead.//" is a good enough justification for many people.
  
  Note that the KFind-toolbar-button - in 1 click distance - is hugely superior from a usability perspective to a menu entry in **2 click distance**!
  
  Having to set up KFind if, say, catfish-search was hypothetically the preset, with KFind on offer only in a secondary settings menu in 3+ click distance, would be a chore escaping 90+ % of users in my estimation.
  
  That fact that Dolphin now has two **separate** configuration menus (one of the two made for search tools only) may not be 100% ideal from a usability perspective.
  
  But the KFind button is a huge improvement, and I don't mean "huge" in the Trumpian sense.  see also : KFind on right-click <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395255#c3>

REPOSITORY
  R318 Dolphin

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D22594

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