increasing the usability of search dialogs

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 15 May 2006 03:18, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > the problem with the find dialog is that it creates a window that needs
> > to be moved around to see the results and requires moving between two
> > visual contexts when using them. it's pretty sub-par.
>
> Hmm, my dialogs always move when the search result ends up under the
> dialog. I'm wondering why yours don't that you see this as a problem ;)

by "needs to be moved around" i meant that it needs to be moved around (to 
state the obvious ;) ... yes, it is moved programmatically when possible but 
an automagically roaming dialog is far from perfect. it's distracting, 
it's "magic" behaviour since it doesn't happen as a result of the usual user 
action that causes window movement and, while it "solves" the problem, it 
doesn't look overly polished.

the in-window dialog can solve this. but as i noted we'd need to make it stand 
out properly so it doesn't get "lost" in the window and make interaction 
obvious (e.g. label the close button, which konversation does)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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