[Design] Re: Design Digest, Vol 39, Issue 26

[Mimi Yin]

Huh, interesting, we could also make Cmd/Ctrl - F launch the user  
into Search mode in the text field? That would make Search more  
discoverable as well.

On Jan 31, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Andi Vajda wrote:

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> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, design-request at osafoundation.org wrote:
>
>> From: D John Anderson <john at osafoundation.org>
>> Subject: [Design] Search
>>
>> I also think putting find functionality in a quick entry command
>> seems to violate another basic rule of UI design: Don't hide
>> important commands from your user. Nobody's going to figure out that
>> you need to type "/search" to do a search. Even with command type
>> ahead, nobody is going to discover it. As an aside, I spent over a
>> week trying to implement Darshana's command type ahead in the
>> toolbar, and got really close, but still have a difficult bug holding
>> it up on Mac. I'm not sure I'll succeed in finishing it for Preview.
>
> To make it possible to actually discover Chandler's full text  
> search feature, I added a "Find" menu item under "Edit" as is  
> normally done.
>
> This menu item (also works with Command-F), enters /find into the  
> search bar and sets input focus to it. One can type Command-F  
> <string to find> <return>
> and the search happens.
>
> And I renamed /search to /find which is shorter, easier to type,  
> and consistent with this new menu item.
>
> I think both these changes make this feature more usable. These can  
> be changed or reverted, of course... comments are welcome !
>
> John, there is a bug with search currently: the search results seem  
> to stick around. If I enter a new - more restrictive - search, the  
> old results are still included in the search results.
>
> Andi..
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