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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It doesn't have to dynamically appear. I just felt that Thunderbird with its clear button in the search box felt more natural and easy to use than highlighting the text and deleting it, as with the deskbar applet, for example. However, a clear button could be placed next to the search box, it doesn't have to actually be in it. It's just that in my example, it's in the box. Alan Horkan wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Caleb Marcus wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:38:14 -0400 From: Caleb Marcus >> <caleb marcus gmail com> To: usability gnome org Subject: >> [Usability] Gnome HIG suggestion: search box clear buttons >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> I'd like to suggest that the GNOME HIG recommend including clear >> buttons next to search boxes that change the current view. I've >> attached a screenshot of an example of one of these, from Mozilla >> Thunderbird. When the user starts typing in the find-as-you-type >> box, the red "X" button appears in the right side of the search >> box. When clicked, it clears the text in the search box and >> resets the view back to normal. > > If we were to take this suggestion on an implementation would > really help get GTK developers to actually use it. > > Dynamically moving or removing elements of the user interface is > unpredictible and creates issues in terms of accessibility. > > For advanced users there is already a shortcut already provided to > quickly clear a line in a search box, if I recall correctly it is > Control A (or possibly Control K. I cannot say for sure, I don't > do Emacs.) > > I'm not sure I see a compelling reason to provide an alternative to > backspace/delete for ordinary users. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYMPlX2SHyykm3j4RAn3+AKChlJ0hpocEmEfr9XHfhtt0Tw47DwCfX5uq mPWwOmLw/ladWVUsxoi8Kx4= =WHxC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |