I was asked long ago for UX feedback on these changes:

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107016/
and
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110326/

Can somebody help on making a decision?

Thanks!

Make Find a toggle action
This should definitely be done. It is very illogical to not hide the search field after clicking Find a second time. The Preview and Split buttons are already toggle buttons, and that works rather well. It's really only the Control button which is different - it should probably get a vertical separator to distinguish it from the three other buttons.


Places Panel: Only show devices which do not exist in the Places
If I understood this correctly, the patch would hide one of the devices I have in Dolphin atm, as it is the drive which holds my Root?



I'm not opposed to this patch in itself, but I'm quite unhappy with the way Devices are being shown in Dolphin right now. I want a better way to tell which drive is which, and I want to be able to tell how much space is used/free on each drive! Just something as simple as optionally displaying the logical name (sda2, sdb1, etc.) would help a lot.

On finding: be aware of the shortcut behavior!

Ctrl+F currently allows to pass the focus back to the find lineedit.
If it's bound straight to the action, it will instead hide the findbar.

Hiding things from the " typical user"

I am opposed to hide things - as Frank Reininghaus wrote:

...making guesses about what the user wants, and then taking actions based on these guesses without giving the user any choice, often leads to problems.

An example from the Kubuntu - the developers guessed that:

...all directories in / are hidden, beside /home and /media. Main reason was to hide stuff that would typically not be needed by typical user.

Thankfully this was reversed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/75017


Devices

by: veqz

I'm quite unhappy with the way Devices are being shown in Dolphin right now. I want a better way to tell which drive is which, and I want to be able to tell how much space is used/free on each drive! Just something as simple as optionally displaying the logical name (sda2, sdb1, etc.) would help a lot.

The Dolphin can show the partition labels if they are set - http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/labels.html




The label can be set in the KDE partition manager - https://www.kde.org/applications/system ... onmanager/