On Thursday 24 April 2014 11:53:49 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > One has to take history into account here. While cleaning up the Kickoff UI, > I've removed the "branding" button. This small text is a useful replacement > for that: > > - Distros want to have the distro name somewhere in the UI > - Users need the name for support inquiries (otherwise, finding out the name > of the OS is hard and different for distros, barring command line)
>From what I've seen, it doesn't show the distro name, but the full hostname, which is a technical thing which ordinary users probably won't understand anyway. Plus, I'm sure we can find better places for branding than the place where the filter bar used to be. > Just yanking it out creates new problems. > > Type to search is used in other applications as well, without input bar: > > - Firefox: search in webpages Which version are you referring to? In Firefox 28, when I start typing without having anything focused, nothing happens. No search starts. > - kmail's move to folder Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "move to folder". Could you please elaborate? > The underlying issue might be that it's understood as search, while it > really is _filtering_, and then it happens to be not so uncommon anymore to > do it like this. The fact that we're using runners for it is entirely not > interesting to the user, it also means that we should not just enable more > runners here. Kickoff is simply not a search-optimized UI. I agree with > Vishesh that as Kickoff is now, search has no place in there. "Filter as you type" is common in GNOME/GTK software, but not in KDE software. If we want to establish this as a new pattern, it should be implemented in more than just one place (plus some place in kmail which I apparently wasn't aware of yet). _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
