Re: [Usability] Find and Search [was: new search/replace dialog proposal for gedit]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 21:43 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor ubuntu com> wrote:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 09.11.2006, 12:38 -0800 schrieb
> > Matthew Paul Thomas:
> > > *   "Find" is a more positive name than "Search".
> > 
> > Find is used for a search that only covers the
> > currently opened data
> > set, e.g. a search in a web page or abiword
> > document. If you also access
> > external data, the term search should be used.
> 
> I've often wondered about the difference between the
> two terms, if any.
> Is that the official definition?

The HIG does make this distinction (see Table 4.8):
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#menu-standard-edit

but I've always been a bit wary of it.  I'm not convinced the difference
matters to most users, and I'd guess the subtlety it doesn't translate
very well to some languages either.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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