Review Request 129893: Implement continuous search

[Elvis Angelaccio]

> On March 19, 2017, 10:30 p.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Great idea!
> > The only feedback I have is that currently the message is visually detached from the search bar (which the user is likely to focus on at this point because that's where they've just clicked a button).
> > Could it be placed at the bottom, directly above the search bar instead?

Not really, it seems that with the current architecture the message widget can only be placed to the top-left corner, or top-right if the layout is right-to-left. This could be changed but I'm afraid I don't know the codebase well enough to do it.


- Elvis


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On March 11, 2017, 5:41 p.m., Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
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> (Updated March 11, 2017, 5:41 p.m.)
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> Review request for Okular, KDE Usability and Albert Astals Cid.
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> Repository: okular
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> Description
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> Show non-intrusive info messages whenever the search start over from the beginning or the bottom of the document, instead of asking the user if s/he wants to continue the search. This is consistent with search in KWrite/Kate and with web browsers.
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> Diffs
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>   core/document.h 1fd86262 
>   core/document.cpp 41b9ddfe 
>   ui/searchlineedit.cpp baac8be0 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129893/diff/
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> Testing
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> Search for something in a pdf, click Next until reaching the end of document. Click again Next and the search starts over from the beginning of the document, without the "Continue from the beginning?" dialog.
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> File Attachments
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> Before: dialog asks if the search should continue from the beginning.
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2017/03/11/16eca574-0572-455d-babe-54f1087a403f__before.png
> After: always continue search from beginning, with a non-intrusive notification.
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2017/03/11/23b69d9a-6fbf-45a5-9595-d355dac26042__after.png
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> Thanks,
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> Elvis Angelaccio
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