Add symmetric padding on right side of details view
There have been some reports that users were unable to figure out
that the padding on the left of the left-most "name" column can be
used for deselecting or for dropping file items. All of these
reports were by people using a Dolphin version in which that
padding was way too narrow because of a regression (that has since
been fixed). Nonetheless this highlights the potential problem that
some users might be unable to notice/figure out the usefulness of
the left padding.
This commit adds a similar area on the right side of the view when
the column widths are set automatically by Dolphin. The width of
the right padding column mirrors the width of the left padding
column when sized automatically. Both can manually be hidden or
resized similarly to resizing other columns.
There are various usability advantages to having this padding by
default on both sides of the view and not only on the left:
- The right margin is more discoverable since the item highlight
ends right before the padding column
- Less mouse travel time to reach either of the areas
- More than double the likelihood of users figuring out the
advantages of these padding areas for deselecting or dropping
- More visual symmetry
I had suggested also having this kind of right padding even before
the initial implementation of the left padding. The contributor
implementing it was in favour of it. It only wasn't implemented
because the contributor said it was impossible without a lot of
work. Turns out adding two characters at the right position seems
to suffice in most ways.
This commit does not contain the string change of renaming "Leading
Column Padding" to "Column Padding" (since it changes two paddings
now) to not infringe on the string freeze.
BUG: 452273
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mentioned in merge request !613 (merged)
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mentioned in commit 385146a1
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