GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 246226
Advanced Search dialog - UI suggestions
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:13:18 UTC
Advanced Search dialog - To open, choose Search > Advanced. 1. In the case of an advanced search, there is no need for the "Rule name" text box until after a user clicks on Save. It might be better to popup a dialog when a user clicks on Save. 2. Would it be more logical to put the Add button and Execute actions drop- down list below the table of criteria? Would this make more sense from a usability point of view? This bug blocks bug 246224.
Well, are there specific problems that you have seen users having with the buttons in their current place, etc? If we know exactly what bits people don't understand, it would be easier to know how to fix the problem. At any rate, there has been a flurry of discussion about drastically changing the UI for the filters/vfolders/searches in 2.0 ; perhaps this time we'll be able to develop the UI from the ground up, instead of trying to use an outlookish design and then trying to massage it into something gnome-esque.
I have not seen users experience particular problems with the items I mention above. This is mostly a personal response from my experiences documenting this function. Re #1: As I documented this function, I noticed that the sequence of actions that I needed to describe seemed a little disjointed. It did not seem logical to me to give a name to save as before I had created the rule. I felt like saving a file before it contained any information, and this was what jarred with me. Re #2: Users already have one row of what the Add button gives them when they open the dialog. I am trying to follow a principle of moving from simple to complex down the dialog. That is, don't make the user need to figure out the relationship between these three elements until they need to. It may be that they will not need to use the Add button at all, so why confuse the path to the rule row with the Add button?
Still in 3.2.3.
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