GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 514429
Inline page search should be a dropdown below the toolbar
Last modified: 2012-12-09 13:40:54 UTC
Hello, I find weird that when you click on the search button on top of the window, it opens a search filed at the botton of the window ! The user may not even see it. Could we imagine a search field at the top of the window where all controls are ? see nautils for an exemple of it http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/fr/figures/figure-nautilus-search.png see also Safari for another exemple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnnDk8yBGT0 see also in Firefox 3 the new password confirmation box which drop down from the top of the window http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/09/firefoxs-password-manager-gets-smarter/ I think that could improve the user experience (to my mind) Thank you for Epiphany browser Other information: (from the mailing list : http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2007-December/msg00024.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2008-February/msg00000.html )
I'm not sure that we should want this. Granted, there is a visual disconnect between the find button on the toolbar and the findbar. But the search button isn't even present in the default toolbar layout. Also, we'd like to stay consistent with Evince and Yelp that also use a find bar on the bottom. To solve this bug in a different way, I hope that new developments with the GTK+ toolkit make it possible to have some kind of slide-in effect and/or dim the browser viewport so that the find bar stands out.
I understand the need to stay consistent with other GNOME applications. But regarding the Epiphany UI, do you think it is more intuitive to have the find bar at the botton of the window than at the top ?
I would have a tendency to ask the evince devs to change their app's behavior too, as I don't currently see a reason for that thing being at the bottom. It behaves more like a contextual toolbar, not much like a statusbar. Maybe a bug report on evince could be opened and linked to this? Just a thought. That way we could get an inter-apps agreement, or design discussion, at least.
i agree with the comment just below shall i open a similar bug report againt Evince or is it possible to change that that bug report to point both Epi and Evince ?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 689929 ***