That's not the point -- It should toggle as that's intuitive and good User Interface development.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Jim Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Use <ESC> key it works fine to close the find box. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM, S D Allen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
