Right now it is not super obvious how you connect to a remote server
in Dolphin when you already know the URL. Users will go to the
"Network" item in the Places panel, but from there it is not totally
clear. The "Add Network Folder" icon in the view opens a complicated
wizard and it's also a bit of an odd UX to have it living in the view as
opposed to being a toolbar button.
Old hands and developers know that the URL navigator is, well, a URL
navigator, and as such, it accepts arbitrary URLs from any view.
However this may not be obvious to other more casual users, for
two reasons:
1. The URL navigator is in breadcrumbs view nearly all of the time and
by default, so may users may not know that it can accept text at all
2. Even when it's displaying URLs, they are almost always local paths,
so users may not make the connection that it can accept remote URLs
rather that just local paths
To improve the discoverability of this feature, this commit makes the
following change:
When the view is displaying the remote:/ ioslave (i.e. the "Networks"
place), the URL navigator is put into URL entry mode and given some
placeholder text that hints at what it can do. It reverts to breadcrumbs
mode when you leave.
BUG: 414670
FIXED-IN: 21.04
This commit applies most suggestions which were made on the MR.
Most notably the DolphinUrlNavigator class is split up which leads to
the creation of a DolphinUrlNavigatorsController class.
Additionally some minor coding style and const correctness changes are
included.
The error value of cached integers is changed from -1 to INT_MIN
because situations could come up in which -1 would be a valid value.
The UrlNavigators will be automatically added to the toolbar. The Sort By
action is removed from the default toolbar to make space.
Remove all options to have UrlNavigators outside the toolbar and remove
those code paths.
Make it so the new NavigatorsWidgetAction contains two UrlNavigators when
in split view mode. Spacing was also added to align these UrlNavigators
with the ViewContainers when enough space is available.
Force the toolbar to be either at the top or bottom of the window.
Set a sane sizeHint for DolphinUrlNavigator. It would be better to do this
in KUrlNavigator in the future.
This commit also contains a changes which should be moved to a separate
merge requests before this gets merged:
- Add an expansion animation when split view is enabled by the user
This commit adds a locationInToolbar KToggleAction to switch between
using a location bar to navigate or using a new custom QWidgetAction
in the toolbar.
A big portion of this MR is refactoring because until now the
UrlNavigator was tightly intertwined with the DolphinViewContainer.
With this MR an UrlNavigator for controlling a View can be freely
connected or disconnected with a single method call.
A DolphinUrlNavigator class is created in the process which contains all
Dolphin-specific UrlNavigator code which did previously reside in the
DolphinViewContainer class. Other application parts that belong to
UrlNavigator-management are also moved here.
