RE: [Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 17:01:55 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>
> To: GNOME Usability mailing lis <usability gnome org>
> Subject: RE: [Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows
>
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > > Is wraparound-related feedback in *the Find dialog box itself*
> > > acceptable ?
> >
> > A status bar in the dialog saying things like "N Items found" or "Wrapped
> > Around" might work but it is probably better to just use a good message in
> > the real status bar and require hitting Find twice, to go past the end of
> > the document.
>
> Agreed. One other possibility might be to automatically un-check the 'Wrap
> around' checkbox once a wraparound has occured, but I'm not quite sure
> this would be clear enough to the user to indicate what happened.

Dont like that idea at all.

The idea is to make wraparound work in such a flawless way that we would
not need to make it optional.

- Alan