| Summary: | Make connecting to arbitrary servers more obvious and user-friendly, like in Nautilus | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kfm-devel |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430211 | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/b14f98de19b97bcf8ca967f635c6df39963df2b0 | Version Fixed In: | 21.04 |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | How nautilus does it | ||
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Description
Nate Graham
2019-11-29 23:01:40 UTC
Created attachment 124193 [details]
How nautilus does it
Oops, forgot the attachment
Figured out a simpler approach: simply make the URL navigator editable and display placeholder text in it indicating that this is possible. MR incoming. The idea of moving the knetattach icon into the toolbar is tracked with Bug 430211. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/137 Git commit b14f98de19b97bcf8ca967f635c6df39963df2b0 by Elvis Angelaccio, on behalf of Nate Graham. Committed on 27/12/2020 at 17:38. Pushed by elvisangelaccio into branch 'master'. Make it more obvious that you can connect to servers on remote:/ page Right now it is not super obvious how you connect to a remote server in Dolphin when you already know the URL. Users will go to the "Network" item in the Places panel, but from there it is not totally clear. The "Add Network Folder" icon in the view opens a complicated wizard and it's also a bit of an odd UX to have it living in the view as opposed to being a toolbar button. Old hands and developers know that the URL navigator is, well, a URL navigator, and as such, it accepts arbitrary URLs from any view. However this may not be obvious to other more casual users, for two reasons: 1. The URL navigator is in breadcrumbs view nearly all of the time and by default, so may users may not know that it can accept text at all 2. Even when it's displaying URLs, they are almost always local paths, so users may not make the connection that it can accept remote URLs rather that just local paths To improve the discoverability of this feature, this commit makes the following change: When the view is displaying the remote:/ ioslave (i.e. the "Networks" place), the URL navigator is put into URL entry mode and given some placeholder text that hints at what it can do. It reverts to breadcrumbs mode when you leave. FIXED-IN: 21.04 M +15 -2 src/dolphinnavigatorswidgetaction.cpp M +10 -0 src/dolphinurlnavigator.cpp M +10 -0 src/dolphinurlnavigator.h https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/b14f98de19b97bcf8ca967f635c6df39963df2b0 |