Contents 1 KatePart Search Bar 1.1 How to use this page 1.2 Usability issues and improvement ideas 1.2.1 Incremetal search bar 1.2.2 Power search and replace bar 1.2.3 Both editions 1.3 Decision proposals with rationale 1.4 Decisions with rationale 1.5 Resources 1.5.1 Current incremental search bar (2008-09-23) 1.5.2 Current power search and replace bar (2008-09-23) 1.5.3 New power search mockup by Jens Bache-Wiig (jbache) (2008-06-20) 1.5.4 v2 mockup by sping (2008-09-25) 1.5.5 v3 by sping (2008-09-28) 1.5.6 Suggestion 1.5.6.1 Feedback 1.6 Links

[edit] KatePart Search Bar

[edit] How to use this page

• Please append "// ~~~" when adding items or commenting so we can see who said what later easily. Thanks! // sping

[edit] Usability issues and improvement ideas

[edit] Incremetal search bar

• Do we need a clear button for the search pattern line edit? (#161415) // sping

[edit] Power search and replace bar

• Bar is too wide and makes window grow on open (#159954, Mail by Chusslove Illich) // sping
• Bar is quite high // sping
• Is switching modes (e.g. "Plain Text" to "Whole words") easy enough? // sping
• Are the "Add..." buttons used at all? Remove or move into context menue? // sping
• Checkboxes: How often are they toggled? The state of which does the user need to see? // sping
• "Use Placeholders" - better name? // sping
• Add option for selecting match or just highlighting? (#130396) // sping
• Mode combo box and "Add..." button next to each other as of now set a rather high minimal width for the search pattern line edit above // sping
• Number of replacements made is not shown anywhere // sping
• Tab-Order of the replace bar --> I think the order should be: 1. Find, 2. Replace, 3. ... same as now // 93.83.106.50 mat69

[edit] Both editions

• Remove From cursor option and make enabled default? // sping
• "Reached buttom, continue from top" indication spans two lines which also grows/shrinks the height of the bar (#168687, #170279) // sping

[edit] Decision proposals with rationale

• <to come>

[edit] Decisions with rationale

• <to come>

[edit] Resources

[edit] Current incremental search bar (2008-09-23)

• Sizes: 50%, 100%
• Source: .ui file

[edit] Current power search and replace bar (2008-09-23)

• Sizes: 50%, 100%
• Source: .ui file

[edit] New power search mockup by Jens Bache-Wiig (jbache) (2008-06-20)

Note: Meant to come with button images

• Sizes: 50%, 100%
• Source: .ui file

[edit] v2 mockup by sping (2008-09-25)

Minimal width

• Sizes: 50%, 100%

Wider than minimum (to show grow behavior)

• Sized: 50%, 100%

[edit] v3 by sping (2008-09-28)

Sizes: 50%, 100%

[edit] Suggestion

Hey all, I created a pretty lightweight mockup. Not sure how to upload pictures here so its an external link.

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Are the options on the bottom line really so important? I find I rarely change search option from search to search. So "Plain text", "Match case" and "Highlight all" should not need to be so readily accessible. 151.89.15.211 18:20, 26 September 2008 (CEST)

[edit] Feedback

• Topic
  • [+] Lisa Allforit
  • [-] Joe Saysno
• "Find:" label should align right (like before)
  • [+] Aaron Seigo
  • [+] André
  • [+] sping
• "Selection only" needs a visible/accessible toggle
  • [+] Jason Stubbs
  • [+] Aaron Seigo
  • [-] sping
• "Highlight all" does not need a visible/accessible toggle
  • [+] Jason Dubbs
  • [+] Aaron Seigo
  • [+] sping

[edit] Links

• (Possibly) Related KatePart bugs
• MediaWiki Editing help