GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661564
Make Search field UI consistent to other GNOME apps (e.g. Empathy)
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:15:02 UTC
See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2011-September/msg00185.html Screenshot from Empathy 3.1 (basically also Evolution 3.2's design): http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/empathy-logb-current.png Empathy 3.2: http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/empathy-logb1.png http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/empathy-logb2.png
Okay, so with the dumbed down design how does one then clear a search or select search criteria ("Recipients contains", "Subject contains", etc.)?
Oh I see, the icon changes to some kind of delete symbol when text is entered. That's fine. That just leaves the criteria question...
(In reply to comment #2) > Oh I see, the icon changes to some kind of delete symbol when text is entered. > That's fine. That just leaves the criteria question... Yes, that's right. The design pattern (yet to be documented, I'm afraid) is to have a symbolic search icon at the right that changes to an edit-clear icon once a search has been entered. The current approach is not to label the field either (so you don't need 'Search:'). Search criteria could be specified using a combobox. You probably want to avoid having several comboboxes for setting the search criteria and scope though. Two possibilities here: 1) Incorporating the search criteria and scope into a single combobox that allows several settings to be configured 2) Relegate searching outside the current folder to the advanced search dialog
(In reply to comment #3) > Search criteria could be specified using a combobox. You probably want to avoid > having several comboboxes for setting the search criteria and scope though. Two > possibilities here: That sounds more like the old 1.x-era search interface. http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/images/screenshots/2.4/read-mail.png I'd be okay with moving account-wide searches to the advanced search dialog, though I realized today the dialog currently lacks a way to specify scope. I'm not even sure if scope is built into the file format we use for saved searches.
Also see bug 626477.
*** Bug 492716 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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