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Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
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Toolbar has no option to display items as text #1105

Open billkendrick opened 4 years ago

billkendrick commented 4 years ago

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Problem

The toolbar in Back In Time shows icons only. While tooltips appear after hovering on them, there appears to be no option to display the tools with text (or as text-only).

Solution

Provide option in the toolbar (available via right-click menu) to display entries as: Icons only, Text only, Text Alongside Icons, and Text Under icons. For comparison see other applications like Kate text editor or Okular image viewer.

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Original post from Bill Kendrick (billkendrick)

The toolbar in Back In Time shows icons only. While tooltips appear after hovering on them, there appears to be no option to display the tools with text (or as text-only).

Compare to Kate text editor or Okular image viewer. Their toolbars provide options (available via right-click menu) to display entries as: Icons only, Text only, Text Alongside Icons, and Text Under icons.

Thanks for your consideration!

Version: 1.2.1 Source: Kubuntu 20.04 repositories

buhtz commented 3 years ago

Why do you need text there?

I would assume this FeatureRequest is out of project ressources here or you could say it is not important enough compared to other Issues and open PRs. Sorry.

Maybe you can provide a PR?

billkendrick commented 3 years ago

I would call this "nice-to-have," since the hover option is probably a suitable alternative. I'm used to most other Qt & KDE apps having text labels on buttons, as a configurable option, and it's helpful for new users to understand what a button does before pressing it. :smile:

I assumed (sorry!) that it would be trivial, though without having any personal experience developing Qt apps myself. Feel free to close if you deem this "won't-fix". Thanks!

emtiu commented 2 years ago

This functionality existed in the past (verified for backintime 1.0.36 on KDE4 in an old VM), but my current best guess is that it has disappeared in migration to Qt5 with 1.2.0 (see also #167).

I also think it would be nice to have it back, if only to conform better to KDE standards.