Bug 509932 - More direct renaming UI
Summary: More direct renaming UI
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_pulseaudio (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.80
Platform: KDE Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2025-09-25 16:01 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2025-09-29 16:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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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