Bug 509932

Summary: More direct renaming UI
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: kcm_pulseaudioAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: isma.af, kde, kdedev, sitter
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 6.4.80   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: KDE Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nate Graham 2025-09-25 16:01:54 UTC 
The device renaming UI is pretty indirect right now: you go to a separate "rename my devices" page that shows all the devices. On that page, you make your changes and then go back to the main page.

The Bluetooth KCM offers a simpler and more direct way of renaming devices: on the page for each device, there's a simple text field with the device name in it. You can edit that field to rename the device. Boom, done.

The Audio KCM doesn't have device-specific pages where we could put text fields. So maybe instead we could make the names of the devices on the main page editable by adding little pencil button icons to the end of them. Clicking on one of those icons would transform the label for the device name into an editable text field, and you could edit the name in there.

(Or maybe it is time to create device-specific pages; the main page is super duper densely packed right now, and I think there's not much room to add more stuff)
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2025-09-25 18:05:45 UTC 
>. Clicking on one of those icons would transform the label for the device name into an editable text field, and you could edit the name in there.

That would be worse than the current state. Every thing we cram onto the main page makes it harder to find the important things.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-09-25 18:19:34 UTC 
Hence my final sentence