Re: [Usability]GNOME-SEARCH-TOOL: Another modified screenshot.

[Dennis Cranston <dennis_cranston yahoo com>]

--- Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:07:54PM -0700, Dennis Cranston wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > Here is another screenshot showing more changes suggested by this mailing
> > list.
> > 
> > Screenshot:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=10513
> > 
> > Please Cc your complaints to my email address.
> 
> I hope the word complaint doesn't indicate that this is too harrowing. ;-)
> 
> How many of the contraints are not useful in duplication? I just noticed
> this because "Do not search mounted filesystems" (???) looks like it can
> be added many times, but it's just a toggle. Maybe those that are just
> on or off should be present with checkboxes?
> 

No. This was a clitch in my GUI.  I haven't hooked up the code to
enable/disable these types of selected constraints in the option menu.

> If that's done, maybe the same should be done with the others and then a
> button provided to duplicate them or a way to specify conjunction in the
> string should be afforded.
> 
> Looking at version 2.0.1 and the first email a few days ago:
> 
> These are just toggles:
>   Do not search mounted filesystems
>   Search follows symbolic links
>   File is owned by invalid user or group
>   File is empty
> 
> "Last time file was modified" only makes sense once and input should be
>  contrained to a valid form.
> 
> "File name matches regular expression" could be used more than once, but 
> who would? Also, this could be just a toggle of the matching string
> interpretation.
> 
> These can use some form of list, either option menu or check list:
>   File is owned by user
>   File is owned by group
> 
> "File is not named" seems like it should be a toggle of matching string
> interpretation. Maybe there should just be an option menu to determine
> the interpretation.
> 
> "File contains text" could obey web search engine conventions: words matching
> without order unless quoted. Results can be sorted by confidence.
> 
> Taking these suggestions, a little glade and gimp work, and less-than-
> satisfactory string consideration, I come up with a contraint section as
> depicted here:
> 
>   http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~merchan/constraints.png
> 

I like your choice of wording for some of the labels.  But IMHO, I think the
layout of your design will make the GUI more complex.

Thanks!
Dennis


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