D15011: [Kickoff] Make the search field always look like a search field

[Filip Fila]

filipf added a comment.


  In D15011#314514 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15011#314514>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > I wonder if we wouldn't feel like the search field was so jarring if there were better differentiation between other elements. For example:
  
  
  Exactly! In your second proposal I don't think the serachbox sticks out, even as it is. At least to me it looks fine. At the same time it is drawing back, albeit not totally, to old Kickoff so there would have to be good designer conceptualization and solution for how to keep it modern.
  
  When I look at Kickoff now and just think narrowly: how can I make the search more prominent and keep designer consistency, what makes most sense to me is to reuse the horizontal blue line we already have as a Kickoff tab selection indicator, and even as the indicators of open windows and plasmoids. These lines are indeed minimalist. Unfortunately that looks terrible:
  
  F6212876: kickoffserachbox(1).jpg <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6212876>
  
  Not even making it a classic Breeze 1px line feels right, although I guess it's a bit better:
  
  F6212878: kickoffserachbox(2).jpg <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6212878>
  
  In D15011#314553 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15011#314553>, @safaalfulaij wrote:
  
  > Why don't we have a simple search icon that indicates that one can search in the kickoff, and once you click on it you get switched to the search layout, where you'll find a note saying you can also search by direct typing, and a “Got it” as many websites does? Youtube doesn’t force a long search input in the channel page.
  >
  > I believe that we need such a concept in Plasma and KDE apps. Some notes that are displayed only if it’s the first time you are using this, and can be easily dismissed. Even an iteractive walkthorght for filled-with-features applications like the PIM suit.
  
  
  I've had a look at that setup. It's pretty sleek. But we have to consider that YouTube still keeps a full-fledged serachbox on their homepage, and the channel is a less important of a place. So if we apply that to Kickoff, it looks like this:
  
  F6212885: kickoffserachbox(3).jpg <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6212885>
  
  And then when it's opened it would look like this:
  
  F6212888: kickoffserachbox(4).jpg <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6212888>
  
  IMO we still haven't solved the problem of it not being obvious that you can search. Maybe having a search icon isn't a bad idea though, but I think we'd still have to make it more obvious somehow:
  
  F6212892: kickoffserachbox(5).jpg <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6212892>
  
  This was just a little foray into what is possible, nothing definitive or great. In the pictures I've shortened the search box so that there is equal distance from the left and right edge of Kickoff, for symmetry reasons mostly, but also because I am a bit bothered that the Favorites tab is wasting about 60% of horizontal space on nothing and I didn't want to drag attention to the right side. This may be fixed when we get a new Home tab and isn't too important right now anyway.

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