[Usability] Find bar variants
- From: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
- To: usability gnome org
- Subject: [Usability] Find bar variants
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:53:32 +0100
Hi,
there are now at least 3 GNOME applications which employ a firefox-style
find bar. However, every one is doing is differently, as demonstrated in
this screenshot [http://www.gnome.org/~chpe/find-bars.png]:
- Evince:
* Close button at the start
* Prev, Next buttons
* Case sensitivity checkbox
* Status text
* Spans whole width of window
- Epiphany (in the Find extension in Epiphany Extensions):
* No close button
* Prev, Next buttons
* Case sensitivity checkbox
* No status text
* Spans whole width of window
- Yelp (in 2.9.x):
* Close button at the end
* Next, Prev buttons (but using arrows instead of stock images)
* No case sensitivity checkbox
* No status text
* Only spans the document's width; starts after the sidebar
Epiphany uses Evince's EggFindBar widget with modifications; Yelp has
its own implementation.
IMHO, all find bars in GNOME should look and behave the same way.
So:
- Should they have a Close button ?
- Should they span the whole width of the window, or exclude sidebar
areas?
- Next, Prev of Prev, Next button order?
- Is case sensitivity common enough to warrant a checkbox in the find
bar?
- Should Enter activate Next, or some other action (for example,
activate the link if the text searched for occurs in a web page link)?
What do you think?
Regards,
Christian
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