[dolphin] [Bug 429453] Bookmarks should have a top-level menu item rather than being hidden in the Go menu

[Jens Lallensack]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429453

--- Comment #6 from Jens Lallensack <info at dinospuren.de> ---
Maybe I need to change my opinion. I now think that the menu bar is not
suitable as the (only) place for features that you need to access very
frequently. You would have to keep the menubar visible at all times for quick
access, which is not ideal (I would personally like to keep the menubar hidden
AND effectively use the bookmarks feature).

Instead, I think that the toolbar is the best place for such frequently used
features. It is easy to go to "Configure toolbars" and add the  "Bookmarks"
entry manually. "Bookmarks" is a feature for power users, and these people can
be expected to add the tool bar icon by themselves. The toolbar seems to be the
natural solution to me.

A downside is that the "Bookmarks" entry, if you add it to the toolbar, does
not have a shortcut associated with it, and I am unable to define one. This
seems to be a missing feature that should be easy to add.

There still is the valid argument of consistency with other apps like Konsole
and Kate. People might ask "why to I have to use the toolbar here, but the menu
in the other apps for the same feature?". However, Dolphin is different in that
the menu bar is hidden by default (and thus, "Alt" + modifier does not work by
default in any case). If a "Bookmarks" entry is to appear in the menu bar for
the sake of consistency, then, following the same argument, there should also
be a separate "Sessions" menu if that feature is implemented some point in the
future (since Kate has a separate menu entry for this as well). The menu bar
may thus become quite complicated, cluttered with options that most users never
use – too much for such a basic application like Dolphin, not simple by default
anymore.

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