currently the options for configuring the information panel are only exposed via right clicking the information panel. This is not very discoverable. Ideally it should also be exposed in other UI as well. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Design/Frequently_Discussed_Topics#Context_menus_are_not_enough
Also note that Dolphin has 4 panels. And all of them have config options in the right-click menu. So does this only apply to the information panel, or to all panels?
>Ideally it should also be exposed in other UI as well. This could either be done by a button on the information panel or as a page in the Dolphin settings or both. I currently don't have a clear preference about this. Either seems alright I think. >So does this only apply to the information panel, or to all panels? This bug report should only track the information panel IMO. That being said, here are my thoughts: - I think it is generally a weighting up: We don't want to worsen the UI or UX for advanced users just because we want to follow the rule of not having actions exclusively available through a context menu at all costs. If there is a nice way to make those actions available, we should. - The terminal panel is mostly used as a feature for experts, so we can assume that most of them know how to right-click. But if we find a nice way to have settings for it within the panel, that might be neat. - I made the places panel keyboard accessible, so some of the issues mentioned in the link above do not apply to it anymore. I also feel like most of the actions in the places panel context menu are not important enough to need a secondary way to access them. That being said: It might be that some users will not be able to figure out how to remove/hide an item in the places panel, which I would consider a problem. - For the folders panel, I don't know yet. I haven't formed an opinion.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/719
Git commit 1d4355f619ca8098d12f330741017e417a756083 by Felix Ernst, on behalf of Benedikt Thiemer. Committed on 15/03/2024 at 16:28. Pushed by felixernst into branch 'master'. Add settings page for Panels For now this just includes the settings for the information panel. Prior to this commit the options for configuring the information panel were only exposed via right clicking the information panel. This was not discoverable enough. Our guidelines also state that much. See: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Design/Frequently_Discussed_Topics#Context_menus_are_not_enough The settings page is missing the "Configure" button for the entries in the information panel, which can only be found in the context menu. This is because I thought it would be weird to move it to the settings page. (The "configure" button is used to select the entries for the information panel) FIXED-IN: 24.05 M +7 -1 src/CMakeLists.txt M +1 -0 src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp M +8 -0 src/panels/information/informationpanel.cpp M +6 -0 src/panels/information/informationpanel.h M +16 -0 src/settings/interface/interfacesettingspage.cpp A +105 -0 src/settings/interface/panelsettingspage.cpp [License: GPL(v2.0+)] A +44 -0 src/settings/interface/panelsettingspage.h [License: GPL(v2.0+)] https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/1d4355f619ca8098d12f330741017e417a756083