VDG is proposing to make Dolphin look more like this mockup:
One of the most prominent things you can see here is that we've given the URL Navigator a more Breeze-like style (Tracked with T11662) and moved it URL Navigator into the toolbar. The reasons are as follows:
- This makes it more obvious, and reduces (and hopefully) eliminates the desire to add an "Up" button to the default toolbar
- Consistency with the general design of other file managers which have their Breadcrumbs bar/URL input field in the toolbar
As far as I am aware, the only challenge here is handling split views. Currently, each pane of a split view gets its own URL Navigator. With this proposed redesign, we have the following options when using split mode:
- Remove the URL Navigator from the toolbar and display one in each pane, as with the status quo
- As 1, but disable the one in the toolbar rather than removing it entirely
- Keep a single URL Navigator in the toolbar, but change it dynamically to show the path for the active split view
- Other ideas?