Re: [PATCH] New incarnation of filtering mode patch

[Nelson Benítez <gnel cenobioracing com>]

Corey Burger wrote:
> I really like the idea, but I am little concerned that the typeahead
> find doesn't work the same way as with firefox//epiphany/evince. That
> kind of typeahead finds the first match, not all of them.

I don't think people want to add an extra "Next match" button, that you
have to press 20 times when you have 20 matched items.

Besides, the applications you mention perform the search on 1 document,
so they are forced to scroll through the document to show all matches,
although Adobe Reader has workaround that limitation by showing all
results in a sidebar. In nautilus we have the advantage that files are
independent and we can float them around as we want (like an ordinary
sort by name|type|size) so we don't have that limitation nor want to
have it I think.

> 
> The second point is a minor one related to UI, the X in the find bar
> needs to be consistent with evince/epiphany. If they even implement an
> explicit close X. (I cannot verify due to being stuck on an FC4 box at
> work, rather than my breezy machines at home)
> 

I've just launched Evince 0.4.0 and the search bar doesn't have any
"close X", so to close it I had to browse the menu again to click on the
item that activates/deactivates the bar, imho this is inconvenient for
the user and they better add a "close X" like Firefox. I cannot tell for
epiphany as I don't have it installed but I think the Firefox search bar
is the good example to follow, I find it very usable.