Re: [Usability] Galeon's Find Feature

[Chee Bin HOH <cbhoh mimos my>]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:07, John R Lenton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:58:53PM +0800, Colin Charles wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Accessing the Find feature in Galeon is as simple as hitting Ctrl+F (or
> > getting it via the menu with Edit -> Find).
> > 
> > When a search is made within the text, the default action of the Enter
> > key is that of the Next button.


> > 
> > However, to get rid of the search window, instead of a commonly accepted
> > Esc key being hit, a user has to use the Alt+C button.
> > 
> > In terms of keyboard usability, maybe we should allow the Esc button to
> > be utilised.

To me, typing Alt-C is faster than ESC, ESC key is located upper left
corner, where too far away from my fingers.

So Alt-C should be much more keyboard usability, remember using arrow
keys or Ctrl+(F, B, N, P) to move around an emacs buffer? Ctrl+(F, B, N,
P) is a recommended way in Emacs too.

On other hand, new user can not tell from the Find dialog GUI, by typing
Esc can get rid of the Find dialog. A good GUI should be WYSIWYG.

> wow! you mean people are still using that? I thought everybody was
> searfhing for text with /text, repeating last search with ^G. Is there
> any reason for Edit -> Find / ^F to still be around?

Agree, that is where HIG comes in, we should enforce Ctrl+G,
Shift+Ctrl+C.
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