[Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Michael Toomim <toomim ocf berkeley edu>]

Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> For my part I'd rather put a text field in the status bar of a window,
> with a "find" button, or a pulldown choice,
>   find forwards
>   find backwards
>   open find/replace window
>
> I don't like "find" bringing up a dialogue box that obscures the text I
> was looking at.  This is only good user interface design in the "good
> means copying the mistakes of others" school of thought.  Another
> example of irritating insanity in this vein is the gimp's "crop"
> dialogue, which hides part of the window, coming up exactly over
> the place you're working and is always disruptive.  Wait until I've
> dragged the whole rectangle, guys, how hard can this be?
>
> So let's get rid of find dialogues altogether and improve the world.

Hear, hear!