[Okular-devel] Find bar and dialogs

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns 22 Setembre 2008, Pino Toscano va escriure:
> 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?

I like the current way, but probably i'm old-fashioned :-)

Albert

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