Re: [Usability] Galeon's Find Feature

[Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol ikhlas com>]

Chee Bin HOH wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:07, John R Lenton wrote:
>
>
> > > However, to get rid of the search window, instead of a commonly accepted
> > > Esc key being hit, a user has to use the Alt+C button.
> > >
> > > In terms of keyboard usability, maybe we should allow the Esc button to
> > > be utilised.

I tested will many windows apps, i found that <esc> close almost all 
dialog (small one) including filedialog.
I didnt test with macOSX's apps.


I think we should implement
"Esc should close dialog box, except XXX type of dialog bog"
where XXX type of dialog is a type that really need user input.


> To me, typing Alt-C is faster than ESC, ESC key is located upper left
> corner, where too far away from my fingers.

Alt C is locale specific, (access key that binded with _Cancel"
for Malay it should be Alt+B,
Alt+C might also conflicted with other accesskey.




> So Alt-C should be much more keyboard usability, remember using arrow
> keys or Ctrl+(F, B, N, P) to move around an emacs buffer? Ctrl+(F, B, N,
> P) is a recommended way in Emacs too.
>
> On other hand, new user can not tell from the Find dialog GUI, by typing
> Esc can get rid of the Find dialog. A good GUI should be WYSIWYG.
>
>
> > wow! you mean people are still using that? I thought everybody was
> > searfhing for text with /text, repeating last search with ^G. Is there
> > any reason for Edit -> Find / ^F to still be around?
>
>
> Agree, that is where HIG comes in, we should enforce Ctrl+G,
> Shift+Ctrl+C.