KDE Search Widget

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:52 pm, Shaheed wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 22:05, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > I noticed that a number of KDE applications have begun to sprout simple
> > search capability within the main window/toolbar.  For example Konq,
> > KMail, KAddressBook and others.  It might be handy to make a common KDE
> > search widget so that this simple search will look consistant across the
> > desktop. Before embarking on making one or enhancing one I figured it
> > would be wise to solicit suggestions for code already in cvs that would
> > be perfect for this.
> >
> > From looking in kdelibs I see KListViewSearchLine and KIconViewSearchLine
> > which look like helper functions for ListView and IconView and really
> > should probably inherit from a common basic search widget (with the
> > pretty search graphic, list saving/restoring, and clear).
>
> Is KFindDialog what you want (like "find" in konqui)? Or did you mean more
> along the lines of the "search" in kmail?

Along the lines of the find in Konq.  It should be a single drop down widget 
with an icon* showing that it is search on the left and possibly a clear 
button on the right when there is text.  Simply, clear and can be included in 
any application.  Now of course KMail would then take that basic text widget 
and then use it for its line edit widget. 

Another thing that the usability team should probably handle is if the search 
should go in the toolbars (like konq) or in the window (kmail).  The biggest 
reason I see for having it in the toolbar is: easy ability to hide/show and 
the search widget typically isn't that wide (see for example konq) and having 
it be across the whole top/bottom just takes up screen space.  Again this 
isn't something that developers could really decide sense it is a UI thing 
and the usability team should probably handle it.

*The icon is so that it would be instantly recognized and take up almost no 
space unlike having a text widget that says Search:.

-Benjamin Meyer

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