Re: [Usability] Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On 3 Jul 2003, Calum Benson wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:40, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > >
> > > Would a standard Find toolbar make sense?
> >
> > Not everyone is willing to give over the screen space, a modal dialog is
> > preferable.  (There was a bug against abiword stating exactly that).
>
> I don't know if that was a typo or not[1], but a modeless Find window is

Umm, yes definately a mistake.
Thanks for the correction.

> much more useful than a modal dialog... it's hugely irritating to find
> something and then not be able to overtype it without closing the Find
> window first :)


- Alan