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Bug 492716 - Regression: New Search Bar is hard to use.
Regression: New Search Bar is hard to use.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 661564
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.12.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on: 661564
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-02 14:53 UTC by Miguel de Icaza
Modified: 2012-09-21 17:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description Miguel de Icaza 2007-11-02 14:53:03 UTC
In older Evolution versions when it came to doing searches there were two big targets that were easy to aim at to perform common operations: how to select the kind of search (subject, sender, body, etc) and to clear the results of a search.

They came in the form of two large buttons [Search Kind]: [.......... ] [Clear]

Now we have a much cuter entry with two icons [*............*] the icon on the left is used to change the search kind, and its hard to hit.   I do not change this very often, so I can imagine living with this.

But clearing a search is a very common operation, and hitting that button all the time is annoying.  I feel like am playing one of those annoying video games where you have to aim at the location to open the doors.

Can we please get back a usable search bar?   

GMail has a fairly wide "Back to Search Results" that is way easier to hit than this.

Other information:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-11-04 17:13:18 UTC
workaround: control+shift+q, like it has always been? ;-)
Comment 2 Miguel de Icaza 2007-11-04 17:28:52 UTC
That would work, but if I wanted to learn more key combinations to do common tasks I would be using the Emacs-based GNUS.

There is no reason why our UI should be regressing just for the sake of it looking "prettier".
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-09-21 17:45:26 UTC
Better covered by bug 661564 nowadays

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661564 ***