[Okular-devel] Find bar and dialogs

[Pino Toscano]

Hello people,

few days ago, I was talking with Celeste about the problem of the multiple 
dialogs popping up when searching using the find bar (as reported in [1]).
Currently, up to three dialogs can popup, even almost simultaneously:
a) a "searching for <search terms>" is shown at the start, giving feedback 
that "something is going on"
b) when the end/begin of the document is reached, a "the end/begin is reached, 
start from begin/end?" question is asked
c) no results produce a final "no results found"

Of course, all of them are a simple "overwhelming", for a simple task like 
searching. Some proposals could be the following:
1) replace a) with a animated throbber, placed left or right the lineedit, as 
you can see in a quick mockup[2].
2) Kill the dialog c), and just color the lineedit with negative colors, much 
like what kwrite/kate in KDE 4 already do

What do you think?

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155858
[2] http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5121/okularfindbarmock1th3.png
-- 
Pino Toscano
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