From kde-usability Wed Feb 16 16:56:37 2005 From: Maurizio Colucci Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:56:37 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Search dialog vs. search bar Message-Id: <42137B45.9020607 () tin ! it> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110857297426476 Jason Keirstead wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:18 pm, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > >>Drag?! Why not just focus the other window by clicking the spot you see? > > > Because then you totally lose your main context window, i which something else > important may be going on. That's what the taskbar is for... > I don't think it is that weird of a case to be using two windows at the same > time, is it? After all - it's the whole purpose of windows in the first > place, otherwise everyting would just be maximized all the itme. Apart from the fact that this is exactly how I use the desktop... me and about all the users I've known. But let us assume your style of usage is frequent under expert people. Let's say 50% of the people drag a window as you say (making it partially invisible). Of those 50%, how many people do you believe would press CTRL+F without first making the window fully visible again, KNOWING THEIR SEARCH RESULTS COULD VERY WELL BE IN THE INVISIBLE PART? Let's say 5% users do such a naive thing. Of those 5%, how many people, AFTER hitting CTRL+F and not seeing anything, would not think "maybe something happened in the invisible part of the window? ". Let's say 20%. Multiplying the fractions, we have (50*5*20) / (100*100*100) people who would be hurt by a search toolbar placed below. That's 0.5%. Hardly something we should worry about. This is not to say I have something against a search bar on top. Cheers Maurizio _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability