Created attachment 138107 [details] searchboxes with a search icon vs searchboxes without the icon SUMMARY In KDE apps, none of the searchboxes have a search icon. STEPS TO REPRODUCE OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT If all searchboxes had search icons, this would help the user to quickly find them, cause, well, that's what iconography does. 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 easy enough to do in Kirigami.SearchField, but it would make QtQuick apps' search fields inconsistent with all of the other search fields in all KDE software written in QtWidgets (e.g. Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, Kate, Konsole...). To make the search fields consistent again, we would have to do one of the following: 1. Go through every single one of these QtWidgets apps and implement a custom icon on an app-by-app-basis 2. Create a common SearchField component for QWidgets apps the way we did for QtQuick apps, and then give it this appearance, and then port every QtWidgets-based app to use it. All of this is possible, of course. But as you can see, it's starting to look like a lot of work that would require coordination across multiple repos, frameworks, and apps. That makes it a good candidate for being discussed in a Phabricator Task rather than here in Bugzilla. Would you like to create one?
I will post there later, thanks