[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9780: Tweaked Find panel layout
- From: "jscipione" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 21:14:21 -0000
#9780: Tweaked Find panel layout
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords: GUI, layout management
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jscipione):
I don't know who the Find Panel czar is around here, but, since I'm the
last person to touch this component I'll put my 2¢ in.
It seems that your complaints center around the dialog pane control at the
bottom. I'll admit that the control is a bit awkward. While your
suggestions improve the situation marginally I'd like to brainstorm some
alternatives that would present the options better.
The fact that these options are hidden away in a collapsible pane means
we're not proud of them, why are we hiding options we're not proud of?
Either they're useful options and so should be shown front and center, or,
they're not so they should be presented in a more appropriate time and
place.
Here's an idea, we could move the 2 check box options into a right-click
context menu and that would leave us only with the Query name option which
we could always show, removing the need for the more/fewer options
control.
I'm not even sure we need the Query name option since you can always save
the query from the recent queries menu. And if you do that the Temporary
check box becomes superfluous too. Then you're just left with Include
Trash which again could be presented without needing for the more/fewer
options control.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9780#comment:2>
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