Re: [Usability] Gnome HIG suggestion: search box clear buttons

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:27 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 10:59 +0100, Phil Bull wrote:
> 
> > Evolution has a similar control [1]. Rather than having a red 'close'
> > button appear, it has a greyed-out 'clear' icon, permanently to the
> > right of the text entry. When you type something into the text entry, it
> > becomes sensitive/colourful.
> 
> Unfortunately, it also takes on the colour of focused+selected text,
> which means it looks like the text field is focused even when it
> isn't :/  Not a mistake we want to repeat elsewhere.

Actually it goes blue - if this is the colour of selected text for
you, that's a coincidence based on your theme as far as I can tell.
Of course, Gnome may well be presented to users with a default
theme in which that's true, too.

Providing visual indication is a good idea, but colour might
not be the best way to do it.

Evolution also has bugs whereby the displayed list of messages
often does not correspond to the contents of the search box,
which can lead me to think eg, there are no matches when there
really are.

Liam

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