Big feature request: add command pallete, which allows to invoke dolphin commands by (fuzzy) command name, similar to modern (sublime, vscode) or old (M-x) Code editor. This should help users who use dolphin occasionally (so they don‘t remember shortcuts), but don’t want to hunt for a specific command position in menus. For example today I needed to create a directory. I do this rarely, so I don’t remember the shortcut. I did this via context menu, but that is awkward, as it is optimized for visual scanning and mouse clicking: after opening context menu, i needed to *locate* the action manually. I wish I could just „M-x, create dir“ and select the action from drop down. See also https://fman.io/docs/shortcuts This
This is doable with one of a few approaches: - Adding a KRunner runner which knows the actions in the application's menu. It's already quite doable technically if you're using a global menu or an in-menubar menu, but for other technical reasons it's apparently not doable if the menubar lives inside the window. Still maybe that's possible to overcome or work around somehow. - Adding searchability to the standard in-window menubar. - Adding searchability to the global menu, if you're using it. There's a patch for this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29466 Either way this is a job for something else in the stack, not Dolphin itself.
This feature is really useful, especially with KDE applications, which are feature-rich (that's good). It's often difficult to find any feature in a hierarchical menu. Right now I use the "plasma-hud" app
This feature was added to all QWidgets-based KDE apps that use our KXMLGui framework, see: https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcommandbar-delivers-ludicrous-mode-productivity/