Bug 355605

Summary:	Replace "Places" Horizontal scroll bar with "..."
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Pascal d'Hermilly <pascal>
Component:	panels: places	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Pascal d'Hermilly 2015-11-19 21:15:10 UTC

The horizontal scrollbar is one of the least attractive things about dolphin - it just sticks out.
You could get rid of it if you make the places entries that are wider than the width of the panel end with "...".
It looks like dolphin used to do it (although with some alignment problems): http://www.tuxarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dolphin.png
OS X finder and Nautilus also use this approach: 
http://cdn9.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Screen-shot-2010-10-29-at-2.11.18-PM.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/L7BKr.png

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2015-11-19 23:01:22 UTC

See bug 325017.

Comment 2 Pascal d'Hermilly 2015-11-20 08:59:24 UTC

Thanks Christoph. Do you know why it was changed? Perhaps because of the alignment problems that are apparent on the tuxarena screenshot.

Kate actually has a quite nice implementation for their file list (at least in kde 4.13).

Was the places panel in the file dialog merged with dolphin's places panel in kde workspace 5?
I see that the file dialog in KDE 4.13 still has the '...' behaviour with alignment issues.

Comment 3 Pascal d'Hermilly 2016-10-23 20:35:23 UTC

@Christoph What do you think about the Kate implementation?
Do you think it could work for Dolphin?

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-09-03 02:01:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 301758 ***