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Bug 691703 - Purpose of up and down arrows is unclear
Purpose of up and down arrows is unclear
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Search
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Cosimo Cecchi
Control-Center Maintainers
3.10
Depends on:
Blocks: 775958
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-14 10:54 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.7/3.8


Attachments
mockup (107.54 KB, image/png)
2013-01-14 10:54 UTC, Allan Day
  Details
search: add a description string for reordering search providers (11.83 KB, patch)
2013-04-02 17:26 UTC, Cosimo Cecchi
needs-work Details | Review

Description Allan Day 2013-01-14 10:54:48 UTC
Created attachment 233433 [details]
mockup

The purpose of the up and down arrows will often be unclear - there is no indication that reordering the list will affect the order in which results are displayed.

My suggestion would be to add an explanatory text at the bottom of the panel (see the attached mockup). The exact phrasing of the text could possibly be improved though: suggestions would be welcome.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2013-01-14 11:48:36 UTC
Shall we do the same in the region & language panel ?
Comment 2 Allan Day 2013-01-14 11:50:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Shall we do the same in the region & language panel ?

I was hoping that we wouldn't need up and down arrows there - for this very reason.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2013-01-14 13:20:15 UTC
I guess in the region panel, you can also change the order by add/remove - you can't do that in the search panel
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-04-02 17:26:40 UTC
Created attachment 240417 [details] [review]
search: add a description string for reordering search providers
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2013-04-19 14:32:58 UTC
Review of attachment 240417 [details] [review]:

That's a lot of changes for 2 descriptions.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-04-19 14:36:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Review of attachment 240417 [details] [review]:
> 
> That's a lot of changes for 2 descriptions.

Why is that a problem? Patch should work fine.
Most of it is just re-indentation churn.
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2013-04-19 14:51:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Review of attachment 240417 [details] [review] [details]:
> > 
> > That's a lot of changes for 2 descriptions.
> 
> Why is that a problem?

Because I can't review that.

> Patch should work fine.
> Most of it is just re-indentation churn.

Most of it is glade re-ordering the widgets, not re-indentation.

If you don't/can't make a minimal patch, I'll have a go at hand-editing it, as I already do quite often.
Comment 8 Allan Day 2013-07-12 17:38:58 UTC
There are updated mockups for this here - https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-settings/search/search-wires.png
Comment 9 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:26:34 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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