Re: [Usability] Find and Search [was: new search/replace dialog proposal for gedit]

[Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor ubuntu com>]

Quoting Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>:

> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 21:43 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > --- Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor ubuntu com> wrote:
> >
> > > Am Donnerstag, den 09.11.2006, 12:38 -0800 schrieb
> > > Matthew Paul Thomas:
> > > > *   "Find" is a more positive name than "Search".
> > >
> > > Find is used for a search that only covers the
> > > currently opened data
> > > set, e.g. a search in a web page or abiword
> > > document. If you also access
> > > external data, the term search should be used.
> >
> > I've often wondered about the difference between the
> > two terms, if any.
> > Is that the official definition?
>
> The HIG does make this distinction (see Table 4.8):
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#menu-standard-edit
>
> but I've always been a bit wary of it.  I'm not convinced the difference
> matters to most users, and I'd guess the subtlety it doesn't translate
> very well to some languages either.

Hello,

in German both terms are translated equally.

What makes me worry a little bit is the new term "filter" introduced in 
Novell's
slab. I am not sure if it's a good decision to also use this therm in the new
control center, since this would result in 3 terms for the same or nearly the
same functionality.

Cheers,

Sebastian


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