On May 10, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > ... > I would like some feedback on my proposal for integrated search in > the Open Files dialog. > > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/gtk-open-files-search/ > ...
I agree with the idea of having a search field that is more obvious and less awkward than a Place. But even after reading the proposal twice, I'm still not sure where your search field *is*, so I'm not sure that this is an improvement. :-) Would entering text in the location field perform a search? If so, would that prevent people from using the Up and Down keys in auto-completion? What would happen if there was a partial match in the current folder, but an exact match inside a subfolder? I agree with Calum that search should be a separate field, because I think it wouldn't be obvious otherwise. But I disagree that this field should be hidden until a button is clicked, for much the same reason. By the way, if that mockup is based on a real application's Open dialog, please report a bug that the dialog's title shouldn't end in "...". :-) Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
