Re: [Usability] Gnome HIG suggestion: search box clear buttons

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 20:38 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote:
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> 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.

FWIW, this area is on our ad-hoc list of "patterns" to think about for
the next version of the HIG (I called it "in-place searching" there):
http://live.gnome.org/HumanInterfaceGuidelines?highlight=%28patterns%29

Would certainly help if we had some toolkit-level support as well,
though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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