[dolphin] [Bug 474951] Allow the search bar to always remain visible.

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474951

--- Comment #2 from third="Beedell", first="Roke", second="Julian Lockhart" <rvdois+RVU4Z9 at rokejulianlockhart.anonaddy.com> ---
(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #1)
> >Almost all other file managers allow it to remain always visible,
> >or don't even provide the option for it to dynamically hide,
> >so this is unintuitive.
> 
> This workflow doesn't make sense to me. If a user uses the search feature to
> find a file and then opens a folder from there, why would they want to
> search again in the folder they just found? Hiding the search box seems to
> be the more sensible behaviour to me.
> 
> If it is about "always being able to search", this doesn't make sense to me
> either, because it is one click either way: Either one click to focus the
> search field or one click to activate the search from the "Search…" toolbar
> button.

I use the search constantly. I don't want to have to constantly toggle it.
Imagine having to unhide your internet browser's omnibox every time you wanted
to search.

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