Dolphin File Manager's bad default (Toolbar) UI experience

[Herzenschein]

@g-fb

@Herzenschein

The Up arrow is immensely useful when doing file navigation with the mouse only.

The location bar can be used for that.

Yes, but that only works if the breadcrumb is always available via the Show Full Path setting.

[claydoh]

@SkyBorg

The fact that you mention DickTrollWatch must mean you do rely on them

That’s an odd take, and extremely incorrect.
Again, how do we really know if one distro is more used than another? We don’t, not with any certainty. Not that it matters for this topic. I was merely attempting to add some levity.

[bedna]

@meven

The only thing, I find has ground is the up arrow, but this is still debatable.

True.
My suggestion is to have a dropdown in the “configure toolbar”, maybe “minimal” and “custom”, where minimal is set as default. Minimal could be exactly like now, BUT add a cogwheel for the “configure toolbars” menu on minimal and be done with it.

If the problem is that the user “does not know”, then a cogwheel would solve that.

[SkyBorg]

As I stated before depending on the Linux distro the defaults for the Dolphin toolbar are different, so no point in the KDE devs setting defaults for it.

[ngraham]

Distros are always free to override the default settings we offer, but most of the time they don’t, so it’s definitely not true that there’s “no point in the KDE devs setting defaults for it.”