Cor Nouws wrote: > Mathias Bauer wrote (26-03-10 13:50) > >> There could be another option that came up when I discussed the problem >> with Carsten Driesner: what if we could "bundle" the three controls into >> a common parent window (transparent and with no borders so that the "sub >> [...] > > I've an idea in a completely different area: change the algorithm for > the look up so that it behaves as a look up field in for example a > browsers address bar. I.e., when I type "tool" all files with tool in > the full name are presented...
I think that we are different to a browser. If you start to type something into your browser's address bar, you will want to open web page. So all a browser has to do is search all possible sources of URLs (history, bookmarks, online repos etc.) to make predictions. What do we expect a user to enter into an OOo search bar? Help content? File names? In what folders? Document content? Web searches? UI commands in the menu? etc. etc. So while a multi search tool would be a nice idea, we have to solve the possible ambiguities. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
