Re: [Evolution] Search boxes and UI meddling

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:17 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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.

IMHO, the very idea of having a clickable icon *inside* a text entry box
makes me squirm. It's just wrong wrong wrong. An icon in a text box
looks like a label or type indicator, not something operational.

poc