[Design] Re: Suggestions on Quick Item Entry in the Search bar

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Fri Aug 11 15:16:46 PDT 2006


Hi Darshana,

> I am worried about the users not knowing too :) . That is why I think 
> that the dropdown list would help showing the user, the options he can 
> choose from. I was thinking that a small symbol to indicate searching 
> and a small down arrow (like in Thunderbird) inside the text widget 
> would help us instead of the current empty text box.

To help users learn the relevant commands, I'd suggest there be two 
things in the drop down, the command and an icon:

/search [*icon*]
/event  [*icon*]
/task   [*icon*]
/note   [*icon*]

Sincerely,
Jeffrey


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