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Searchboxes could have a search icon
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In KDE, there is no search icon in the searchboxes. If all searchboxes had search icons, this would help the user to quickly find them (a good iconography is an usability improvement).

endlesswaterfall created this task.May 4 2021, 4:30 PM
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ngraham added a subscriber: ngraham.EditedMay 25 2021, 11:14 PM

For Kirigami apps, this is pretty trivial: just add the icon into the shared SearchField component that already exists.

For Plasma search fields, we would need to either create a PlasmaExtras.SearchField component that duplicates the Kirigami version and then port everything to use it, or else wait until Plasma 6 where the Plasma-specific components are going away and we can just use Kirigami stuff.

For QWidgets apps, we would need to create a new KSearchField UI component and keep it visually in sync with the Kirigami version, and then port the hundreds of search fields in all of those QWIdgets-based apps to use it. Then we could add the requested icon into it.