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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: increasing the usability of search dialogs
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2006-05-15 10:00:21
Message-ID: 200605150400.22349.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Monday 15 May 2006 03:18, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > the problem with the find dialog is that it creates a window that needs
> > to be moved around to see the results and requires moving between two
> > visual contexts when using them. it's pretty sub-par.
>
> Hmm, my dialogs always move when the search result ends up under the
> dialog. I'm wondering why yours don't that you see this as a problem ;)
by "needs to be moved around" i meant that it needs to be moved around (to
state the obvious ;) ... yes, it is moved programmatically when possible but
an automagically roaming dialog is far from perfect. it's distracting,
it's "magic" behaviour since it doesn't happen as a result of the usual user
action that causes window movement and, while it "solves" the problem, it
doesn't look overly polished.
the in-window dialog can solve this. but as i noted we'd need to make it stand
out properly so it doesn't get "lost" in the window and make interaction
obvious (e.g. label the close button, which konversation does)
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Aaron J. Seigo
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