Bug 475106

Summary:	Raise the address bar to better indicate that it's clickable
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	bars: location	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	4wy78uwh, akselmo, ben, kfm-devel, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	accessibility, usability
Version:	23.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	Frameworks 6.12
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Mockups

Description postix 2023-10-01 19:18:11 UTC

Created attachment 162010 [details]
Mockups

SUMMARY

Ever since I have installed Plasma on my parents computers, I have noticed that they had issues to figure out that the address bar in Dolphin is actually clickable. For them it just looked like informative text, which was visually not very distinct from the rest in the toolbar.

Thus we believe that it'd be easier to understand and in passing look better, if the address bar were raised as shown in the attached mockup taken from [1].

[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/T12308

Comment 1 postix 2025-01-13 13:01:27 UTC

Thank you Nate for having mentioned this issue implicitly in your fantastic interview with Brodie :-)
KDE Plasma Absolutely Smashed Its Donation Goal | Nate Graham (https://youtu.be/ll71prN_EHA?t=5957)

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2025-01-22 10:28:23 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1793

Comment 3 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-03-03 09:23:26 UTC

Git commit 2df82c5ab8580ffdc37299874acec80d2822d577 by Akseli Lahtinen.
Committed on 03/03/2025 at 09:23.
Pushed by akselmo into branch 'master'.

Add background to KUrlNavigator

This adds a background primitive to the KUrlNavigator, making it's default look similar as when edited.

This should make it easier for users to realise that the item is interactable.

This also changes the arrows between elements to clickable folder icons.

See also https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/issues/68

M  +9    -5    src/filewidgets/kfilewidget.cpp
M  +58   -1    src/filewidgets/kurlnavigator.cpp
M  +2    -0    src/filewidgets/kurlnavigator.h
M  +88   -69   src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatorbutton.cpp
M  +9    -3    src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatorbutton_p.h
M  +9    -15   src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatortogglebutton.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/2df82c5ab8580ffdc37299874acec80d2822d577

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-03-03 14:38:06 UTC

Effectively done by that commit. It's great!

Comment 5 postix 2025-03-03 14:45:04 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4)
> Effectively done by that commit. It's great!

<3 Thanks so much!