GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 246228
Save Search dialog - UI suggestions
Last modified: 2009-01-08 15:05:10 UTC
Save Search dialog - To open, choose Search > Save Search. Or choose Search > Edit Saved Searches, click Add. 1. 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.
So *I* don't think that this would make much of a difference. Can you explain why you think it might help?
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? Anna, you're the usability expert, and if you don't think this will improve the usability of this dialog, that's fine by me. However, it might be worthwhile including a short test on this topic if you are doing usability testing on Evolution at some point in the future.
at least retargetting from 2.3 to 2.5
did not happen in 2.5 timeframe, changing target milestone to "future".
Bumping version to a stable release.
This bug seems like obsolete to me, the dialog looks a bit different than it is described above...
Milan: Even with the current Evolution stable 2.22.3.1 the "Add Filter Criteria" button is still above the table. I think the reporter was referring to this button to be below the criteria table. But still I'm not sure how far it makes any difference.
+0 on moving the Add button (if for nothing more than to make that row look less cluttered), but I think the "Include threads" and "Find items" options should stay where they are.
I'm against moving the button too, it's quite usual to read from top to bottom, thus why one should go through empty box and then realize the add button belongs to that empty thing? I vote for "let it be as it is now".
No complains, I'm closing it.