Kickoff favorites - Suggestion (with mockup!)

[Hans Chen]

Howdy,

Today I talked a little bit with Aaron Seigo on IRC about favorites in
Kickoff. It all began with me wondering the best way to deal with bug
170605<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170605>.
My initial plan was to simply erase the search box when a favorite was
added, but Aaron argued that 'switching the whole context to say "hey, it
worked!" is a bit silly'. Even though I agree, I would still like to see
some kind of feedback when (successfully) adding a favorite in Kickoff.

Well, now I have thought of a solution that would make me, and hopefully
also Mr. Seigo, satisfied. :)
Check this <http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1024/kickoffmockupyh0.png>picture
and I think you get the idea. The star works in the same way as in
the Add widget dialog, and is only shown for the selected item. It provides
a simple way to add/remove favorites, and also fixes this feature:
21:31 < aseigo> Mogger: in fact, maybe all app items in search that are also
in favourites should show as being favourited? hm.
Furthermore, it is consistent with the Add widget dialog and easily
discoverable.

The only problem I see at the moment is the space conflict with the bars for
removable storage (old
picture<http://eliasprobst.eu/%7Eelias/stuff/screenshots/kde4-issues/kick-off-storage-devices.png>;
I was too lazy to take a screenshot).


What do you think?

With best regards,
Hans Chen
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