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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Search dialog vs. search bar
From:       Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach () wp ! pl>
Date:       2005-02-16 11:14:53
Message-ID: 200502161214.53441.mikmach () wp ! pl
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Dnia środa, 16 lutego 2005 10:35, Thomas Zander napisał:
> Let me explain;
> the search dialog is for most users and has good enough usability on
> its own.  The '/' search is a different interface to the same concepts
> for other users. Users that are used to working like that.
> These two different interfaces don't collide in usage and don't make
> the usability of one of these groups worse.
> In other words; there is no problem on the usability front due to the
> two different interfaces and they are actually 2 distinct features,
> for different users.

Partially agree with you: / search is for different users than Find icon
search. But improvements in current handling of / search would be
welcome: possibility to edit searched string and switch case
sensitivity, maybe use of RE. Case sensitivity could be handled with
special atom (like in Vim: \c) - this feature is for power users which
can use such things. Not anything have to be dumbed down.

Definitely these two (/ and Find) shouldn't be merged.

Also I think this special status bar should be at bottom: 

m.

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