increasing the usability of search dialogs

[John Tapsell]

Hi,
  At the risk of being accused of thread hijacking...

  In a similiar vein I'd love to see file loading also down inside the
app.  Gnome does this for example in their text editor.  At the moment
if you open a remote text file in kate (etc), it pops up a window
saying loading and the kate window remains blank until it's loaded.
  In gnome text editor, it shows a "loading" and progress bar in the
top left hand corner of the blank page in which the text file will be
shown.  I think that would be a great thing to have :-)

John