Re: [Usability] Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:40, Alan Horkan wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > 
> > Would a standard Find toolbar make sense?
>
> Not everyone is willing to give over the screen space, a modal dialog is
> preferable.  (There was a bug against abiword stating exactly that).

I don't know if that was a typo or not[1], but a modeless Find window is
much more useful than a modal dialog... it's hugely irritating to find
something and then not be able to overtype it without closing the Find
window first :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] I presume it probably was since you mentioned the not unreasonable
possibility of being able to dock it as a toolbar, and a modal toolbar
would be kind of unusual :)

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