[dolphin] [Bug 508303] UX regression: With the new location bar design it's absolutely impossible to tell where the URL bar ends and content starts
Christian
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Sat Aug 16 17:32:18 BST 2025
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508303
--- Comment #6 from Christian (Fuchs) <kde at fuchsnet.ch> ---
(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #5)
> >So the only question is the clickable location bar, and imho
> >content background would be wrong there for multiple reasons
>
> So you also think it is wrong for the default position of the location bar
> on the toolbar?
I never had that enabled personally, but I now just did, and no, to me it looks
correct there.
In the clickable mode, it has the backdrop colour of a toolbar, which is fine,
if one assumes that the controls are like buttons. In editable mode, it becomes
a text input field, which has the same colour as all text input fields (white,
for breeze light), which is also fine.
As said, the problem when it lives outside of the toolbar is imho not the
backdrop of the text input control in editable mode, but rather the container
that holds said control, which is currently the same backdrop as folder
content. And it isn't folder content in my opinion, and if it was, it would
still be impossible to distinguish where one starts and the other ends, which
is not good as these behave different (on click, on drag, on drop, on ...)
tl;dr: the one in the toolbar is imho fine, the one outside of the toolbar
isn't. To fis the latter, I propose giving it a toolbar-coloured backdrop like
find and filter also have. If you prefer a thin line: imho not great UX because
inconsistent with the rest and hard to spot for people with not-so-great
eyesight and with various styles and colours, but I agree that would be an
improvement over the current state.
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