Re: [Usability] Standardizing Find and Replace - 2nd pass

[Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc yahoo com>]

Hi,

FWIW, I proposed something similar a while ago
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2002-December/msg00101.html).

It's basically:

1) put the find&replace stuff on a toolbar
2) do the find incrementally (as the user types)
3) show all the matches at once with little marks on
the scrollbar
4) replace clicking directly on the text

My proposal was lacking mainly buttons to jump to the
next & previous matches.

There is one windows application that does something
similar, but instead of putting the marks on the
scrollbar, it puts them next to the toolbar (see
http://e98cuenc.free.fr/search/search2.png)

It also puts two buttons at the bottom of the
scrollbar to go to the next & previous matches (if the
find & replace toolbar is on the top, it would make
sense to put these buttons on the top of the
scrollbar).

Anyway, food for though

Cheers,


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Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc at yahoo dot com

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