KDE4 HIG issue: search/filter bars and the clear button

[Patricia Jung]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:40:28AM +0100, Florian Graessle wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > often there is a little button with an "x" in it to the left (or right in RTL) 
> > of the label that clears the field. this is obviously inspired by the same 
> > button in konqi's location bar.
> > 
> > [...]
 
> Repeatedly I've thought about using a "clear" button on the right side
> next to the filter line. I've always come to the conclusion that it
> could easily be mistaken for a "go" or "input" button - with disastrous
ACK. And it is my personal experience that this happens very often.

> sure how important it is to have a clear button in this special case at
> all.
I'm neither sure about this. But it would be a good idea to propagate
the Ctrl-K and Ctrl-U shortcuts, say, in What's this. 

    Patricia