Has the HIG updated and decided the search label needs to be removed? Anyone has a pointer as to why anyone would do that when there's no scarcity of horizontal space?

I wish you used proper commit logs, this is not "Use ellipsis in the search field" this is "Remove search label and replace it by a placeholder"

You may not think of it, but this commit logs are going to be read by people in 10 years and them being accurate is quite important.

And also, stop removing buddies! You're making the line edits inaccessible by using the keyboard when before they were, that's a major usability regression

In D19774#433205, @aacid wrote:

I wish you used proper commit logs, this is not "Use ellipsis in the search field" this is "Remove search label and replace it by a placeholder"

You may not think of it, but this commit logs are going to be read by people in 10 years and them being accurate is quite important.

Sorry about that, I will use better titles in the future.

And also, stop removing buddies! You're making the line edits inaccessible by using the keyboard when before they were, that's a major usability regression

I don't understand the problem, I can still use tab to go to the line edit. Or are they some other shortcuts that I don't know yet?

In D19774#433207, @ognarb wrote:

In D19774#433205, @aacid wrote:

I wish you used proper commit logs, this is not "Use ellipsis in the search field" this is "Remove search label and replace it by a placeholder"

You may not think of it, but this commit logs are going to be read by people in 10 years and them being accurate is quite important.

Sorry about that, I will use better titles in the future.

And also, stop removing buddies! You're making the line edits inaccessible by using the keyboard when before they were, that's a major usability regression

I don't understand the problem, I can still use tab to go to the line edit. Or are they some other shortcuts that I don't know yet?

Buddies are not about tabbing, buddies are keyboard accelerators. See https://i.imgur.com/ztGaCW5.gif

It's a bit basic, but pressing Alt+H will focus the buddy of the Hello label and pressing Alt+T will focus the buddy of the There label. If you remove the labels you can't Alt+Anything to focus on the line edits

We're trying to use a consistent visual style throughout KDE software, which means no buddies for search fields.

I understand your point that this means the search field is no longer accessible via an alt-key accelerator, and I agree that this is a functional regression. Is there any way we can get the benefits of both? Can we assign the search field itself a consistent alt-key accelerator?

In D19774#433270, @ngraham wrote:

Can we assign the search field itself a consistent alt-key accelerator?

Yes, you can use a buddy :)

How would you even show which alt-key accelerator to use if there's no buddy?

Just thinking out loud here, but when there's no buddy and there is placeholder text, the text field's placeholder text could show an underline under one of its letters just like the buddy does.