Re: [Usability] Galeon's Find Feature

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Chee Bin HOH wrote:

> 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.

Not if you are a VIM user.  Man I keep on pressing esc after
finishing typing something in anywhere.  In the browser in the
other OS, it used to cat > /dev/null everything I had typed when
I pressed ESC to exit INSERT mode!

> 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.
>