#KDE #Dolphin's new location bar (in version 24.12.3
), while I'm sure it looks neat and is an improvement to some - looks a bit like a regression to me. I much prefer the minimal look of the previous version, and think the new one looks unnecessarily distracting and cluttered, especially when it's a really long path. I expected there to be a setting that could revert this but I couldn't find it and honestly, fair enough since people have been asking KDE to reduce the number of settings instead of adding more.
I think it might look nicer, if not reverted entirely, for the design of the two to be "merged" together - whereby, remove that "text input" space look when it's not atm a text input (previously it only "turns" into one once it's been clicked, which imo is smarter and more intuitive), and instead of segmenting them into "boxes", just have the icon + text be a part of the window and separate them with the much more minimal arrows as they were before. I think this is also how #macOS sort of does it too with their location paths/bar at the bottom of #Finder (just, in this case, have it on top as it is now).