Re: Icons for page types

[Milo Casagrande <miloc gnome org>]

2010/3/28 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> Yeah, this is something I was concerned about when I first
> created the location entry. I'm planning on adding a menu
> item for search that will just focus the entry. I'm also
> planning on having a "Search" entry in the history dropdown
> that will do the same thing. I hope that the two of those
> combined will make it more obvious, and once a user uses
> the menu item or entry once, it should be clear that they
> can just click inside the entry in the future.
>
> Testing would be awesome. I just don't know where to get
> people to test on.

I don't know about usability, but what about having some italic,
light-grayed-out text inside the search bar that says "Type here to
search...", or something similar?
Are those kind of text inside text-entry discouraged?

Ciao.

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Milo Casagrande <miloc gnome org>