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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Color warning for "Search" textbox
From:       Iñaki <ibc2 () euskalnet ! net>
Date:       2006-05-25 20:37:58
Message-ID: 200605252237.58588.ibc2 () euskalnet ! net
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El Jueves, 25 de Mayo de 2006 22:06, Celeste Lyn Paul escribió:
> In what cases have you seen the search box get focus accidentally where the
> user didnt realize it had focus?

Many times, and not just me, I know many people using KDE who complain about 
the same issue.

For example:

- When I start amaroK the "Search" textbox has the focus, so if I press 
unintentionally any key then I write in the textbox and some 
song "dissapear". The problem is that just some songs dissapear so I don't 
realize of it immediately, and there is not a visual evidence to warn the 
user.

- I need to find a contact in Kaddressbook so I write "john" into the "search" 
textbox and find "John Williams". Perfect. But after that I minimize 
Kaddressbook or go to other virtual desktop.
After 5 minutes I maximize again Kaddressbook and want to see all my contacts 
in the category "Family" and is annoying for me because I only see a 
few "Family" contacts. This is because I forgot that the last time I typed in 
the "Search" textbox so the filter is still active.

Those kind of issues have occured to me many times.


Anyway, in case that somebody doesn't suffer this issue, what is the 
inconvenient of my proposal?


> On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:55, Iñaki wrote:
> > Sometimes the "Search" textbox gets the focus accidentally and the user
> > doesn't realize of it, so when pressing any key an annoying behavior
> > occurs (in Kmail, Kaddressbook, amaroK...). This is an usability issue,
> > isn't it?
> >
> > So, I think it could be convenient to warn the user when the "Search"
> > textbox is being used.
> >
> > I propose a red background when the "Search" textbox has the focus (see
> > the mockup in the link of the bottom). Maybe somebody can suggest a
> > better way for this warning.
> >
> > I suppose that this feature should be integrated in Kdelibs for all the
> > KDE apps.
> >
> > I've done a mockup and published it in KDE-LOOK:
> >   http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=39772

-- 
Iñaki
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