IMO it should be a toggle. I don't mind it in a fixed position it's really annoying when one can use a key command to open something but then require the mouse to close it. That's not good UI design
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Finnur Thorarinsson <[email protected]>wrote: > 1) No. I think it would just annoy people. With the Find box (as it is > implemented today) - if it loses focus you'd have to press Ctrl-F twice to > get focus to the text area of the Find box (once to close it, once to open > it again and sets focus to it). Now... You already have a keyboard shortcut > to close the Find box, so you can just as well use Esc to close it. It is > even easier (1 keystroke fewer) than using Ctrl+F and people are used to Esc > closing things. > 2) and 3) sound like something you should enter into the bug repository and > have it labeled (by one of the Chromium members) as a feature request. > See: http://crbug.com > > Personally, I don't see the point of 2) and with 3) you'll always run the > risk of obscuring something, no matter where you locate the Find box over > the page. Having it on top at least makes it more visible to people. > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:47, Gambitico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> (1) would be nice if Ctrl-F worked as a toggle to open/close the find >> dialog, right now it only opens it which creates a mouse dependency to >> close the dialog >> (2) when the find dialog is already open Firefox also opens it with a >> new tab session, would be nice to have this feature available in >> Chromium too >> (3) the find dialog opens only in the upper-right corner which hides >> the Google home page account options! would be nice to be able to >> display the dialog in a much more convenient location, for example, at >> the bottom of the screen >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Cheers, Steve http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
