Re: [Evolution] Search boxes and UI meddling

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 12:45 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> BTW, I didn't even realize the little magnifying glass was clickable!
> Its location makes it functionally invisible and it lacks what the CHI
> people call "affordance".

FWIW, I filed a bug a few months ago to have a downward arrow added to
the icon, to make it more obvious that it offered some menu items (aka
"make it look more like Spotlight search on the Mac").  I'd agree
there's certainly scope for grander improvements, though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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