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Bug 704122 - Placement of gear button is misleading
Placement of gear button is misleading
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Search
3.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Cosimo Cecchi
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 775958
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-12 17:42 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.7/3.8



Description Allan Day 2013-07-12 17:42:15 UTC
The gear menu is in the attached toolbar. This makes it look like the Search Locations dialog is specific to each application, when it's not - the settings are global for anything using Tracker.

My suggestion is to move the gear menu to a button above the list - 

https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-settings/search/search-wires.png
Comment 1 kunal jain 2014-12-15 13:19:49 UTC
i am new to open source.
i want to work on this bug. can anybody guide me?
Comment 2 Christian Stadelmann 2016-03-30 15:32:44 UTC
Doesn't this issue affect just the files search? If yes, preferences for file search should be displayed in the "Files" list entry. This button is expected to configure all search items due to its placement outside of the search plugins list.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:27:55 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
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

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