On October 22, 2004 5:37 pm, Michael Petch wrote: > The problem with KDE is that / is not intuitive (I wasn;t even aware of > the / ). In fact at first I thought you had to put a slash in the url > bar. But you have to click in the document first wihich emans that you > have to know to put the focus in the document, and you need to know > the / command even exists. > > Firefox is different. I didn't need to go hunting in a manual or an on- > line document to see the feature. It was there. Plain and simple. > Konqueror uses control-f (and the slash). Control-F is the old style pop > up. In fact - maybe what Konequeror is lacking is that there is nothing > in the normal search box to tell you about the / command at all. > > From rom a user standpoint, I didn't need to be a power user to get it to > work. On this feature it wins hands down over Konqi and IE. > > The best UI's are the ones where the user doesn't have to think about > it. It is just there. The UI is a tool for me to manipulate my computer, > not a mechanism for the software to manipulate me. > > Konqi also lacks the highlight (for all occurrences), unless there is > another special key sequence I have to hit for that too? > > Mike
Hi, Just a note here, the / to find is not a KDE specific feature. It has been a relatively standard shortcut of many unix command line tools for ages. Try it out in less, man, info, vi and others. Also ? is commonly used to find backwards. I agree using / is not intuitive but its addition in KDE was definately appreciated by people used to using it. ~Scott _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
