| Summary: | Improve Places category show/hide behavior: show/hide when clicking on header | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | Places | Assignee: | David Faure <faure> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aasifk106, anditosan1000, bugseforuns, claudius.ellsel, kdelibs-bugs, matheus4551, mustacmarijo, office, piotr.mierzwinski, renatooliveira.cin, simonandric5 |
| Priority: | HI | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407490 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | How macOS Finder does it | ||
*** Bug 390372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Maybe also the categories can remember the state that the user left them in and hide by default. I like this idea. Yes, remembering is a must. We already have that, in fact. We just need to improve the UI and the discoverability. Hi. I am trying to solve this issue. But I am new to KDE development overall. And looking at the code I think that the code of KFilePlacesModel must be changed because dolphin is using KFilePlacesModel directly for its places panel. Am I headed in the right direction? Thanks. Yep, you're on the right track! Keep in mind that Dolphin does do some custom overlaying on top of that as well. *** Bug 431806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
Created attachment 110311 [details] How macOS Finder does it We now have support for hiding and showing Places panel categories. Yay! However, the UI for this is rather hidden: you have to right-click on the header to hide it and its category, and then when you do, the entire thing--including the header--disappears, so you can easily forget about it or not even realize that there's anything hidden that can be shown! I would recommend using a UI more similar to how the macOS Finder implements this: when you click on a header, its content collapses, the but the header remains, to show you that there's hidden content. It's quite slick. Bonus: if we implement this, we can feasibly hide certain categories by default to reduce clutter (like "Search for") without impairing usability or discoverability because people can easily show it if they'd like.