Re: [Usability] A few ideas to improve searches in Rhythmbox

[Sebastian Heinlein <liste pimpzkru de>]

Am Montag, den 26.07.2004, 19:47 +0200 schrieb markus hammer:
> Am Mon, den 26.07.2004 um 14:57 Uhr +0200 schrieb Julien Olivier:
> 
> > > -When the song list contains no items, but there is text in the search
> > > box, present a message in the list box along the lines of "Search for
> > > 'penny lane' found no results".  This should alleviate most of the
> > > potential confusion about why no songs are listed, although it doesn't
> > > eliminate the minor annoyance when the user realises they've got to
> > > manually clear the search box.
> > > 
> > 
> > Maybe a better solution could be to show "Search for 'penny lane' found
> > no results, press _here_ to clear the search"...
> 
> good idea, users need feedback on whats happening inside the computer,
> giving a blank Space with no feedback is not very user friendly...

I am also interested in this discussion, since I work on the synaptic
package manager and we thought about implementing such an instant search
to provide a faster access to the large number of packages available in
some distrus (there are nearly 15000 packages in Debian).

Regards,

Sebastian