https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389384
--- Comment #5 from Dominik Haumann ---
This request is certainly not unreasonable. Then again Kåre already mentioned
that the search is a bar and not a dialog by design: we have had many (!) bug
reports over the years claiming that the search dialog hides text that is
found, and therefore is rather user unfriendly.
Over the years, a search bar became a defacto standard also under Windows: no
browser has a search dialog anymore.
I can see that the dialog may be more what you want, but we would reintroduce
many regressions with this again. It's unfortunately not as easy as you might
think. We once had a dialog:
- users complained that it hides text
- we made the dialog smart such that it moves in case it hides text: we got
complaints that the dialog jumps unexpectedly
- we never made the dialog transparent like in Notepad++: since then you have
two texts at the same location shining through. A usability issue for sure.
I think this bug report is maybe the first one in 10 years that wants the old
behavior back. That said, we need by far more evidence than writing "Windows
users expect this" - it's not as easy as this, sorry.
Mockups about possible improvements are welcome here.
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