GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 786852
"Search" button is redundant with the "Search & Replace" button; make it a modal revealer toolbar instead
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:46:03 UTC
There is no point in having two toolbar buttons/features for this, when the 2nd feature does everything the 1st feature does. We can also take this opportunity to make the "Search & Replace" UI and user experience really pleasant to use and see: instead of having that as a modal dialog, we could do it in a much more modern and less intrusive way: * The search/replace toolbar button would be a toggle button * When activated, * The formatting toolbar, packed in a GtkRevealer, is hidden away and… * …the search&replace toolbar reveals itself through another GtkRevealer See https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkRevealer.html I was hoping the search & replace bar could have used https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSearchBar.html but that API doesn't seem to encompass "replace" functionality and the various other things that are currently in Evolution's "Search and Replace" dialog, so I guess it's better to just lay out those widgets horizontally inside a revealable toolbar, similar to what you see in Firefox.
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