[Design] Search

[Mimi Yin]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote:

> The current spec is reasonable enough to me (entry first,  
> especially if automatically switching to search on Cmd-F shortcut),  
> but maybe that's because I know about it already and because I  
> enter new items far more than I need to search for them by their  
> contents. It will be interesting to try it out in a5 and see what  
> the initial impressions are.

Yes, that is our supposition for Preview as well.

>
> Re: the shape of the text widget
> Is it the rounded edge or the little magnifying lens that indicates  
> that it's a search widget? When the field is in the command line  
> mode, the rounded space could be used to indicate this, for example  
> put a ">" or something like that.

Yes, we wanted to have an icon in the rounded space to differentiate  
between the different modes. We also wanted the hint text to change  
dynamically in each App area to show you what kind of item you'd be  
creating by default (Note, Message, Task, Event) but I believe those  
2 features would have required quite a bit of work and have been  
deferred to Post-Preview.

For a mockup, see: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/ 
QuickItemEntryProposal#MockUp

Thx for your feedback Davor.

Mimi