Created attachment 137858 [details] dolphin settings and system settings SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE Open Dolphin settings. OBSERVED RESULT Currently, the icons in the left panel are unnecessarily big and the default window size even hides the last option, user feedback. EXPECTED RESULT Small icons with text next to them would be better to save space, create less clutter and to align with System Settings, which uses this compact way, as I described, in the left panel. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 21.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.11.0-16-generic ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is a deliberate style thing. If we made it look like System Settings, with skinny list items, 90% of the vertical space in the sidebar would be empty, and people would complain about "wasted space". So we use big list items for lists without a lot of items in this to provide bigger click targets and consume more of the space we're asking for.
Understood
Maybe Dolphin settings could be added to System Settings. This changed happened for KRunner settings: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433101
KRunner settings always lived in system settings, which makes sense since KRunner is a systemwide service, and the options there affect other KRunner-provided searches, such as the one in Kickoff. Dolphin by contrast is a standalone application, so it makes sense for its settings window to remain in the app itself, as all other app settings windows are.
Understood. Thanks for the info