Hmm, I can see a possible compromise in this area. Here's how I see it working...
Initially, Ctrl+F opens the find dialog. additionally, if the find dialog is open, but not in focus, then Ctrl+F would switch focus to the find dialog. And, if the find dialog is open and in focus, hitting Ctrl+F or Esc (both should be implemented) would close the find dialog. This is almost exactly how it is implemented in the stable version. The only change is that Ctrl+F behaves like the Esc key in the case where the dialog is open and in focus. This way you would only have to hit Ctrl+F once to get focus back to the dialog (which is how it works now), and you would still get the toggle effect. Notice, as the find dialog works now, you would have to give focus back to the dialog box by hitting Ctrl+F before hitting the Esc key to close it. You are currently not able to use a single keyboard shortcut to close the find dialog when it is not already in focus. Does this sound like a reasonable solution? On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:33 PM, S D Allen <[email protected]>wrote: > Well FWIW since most of your users are probably coming from Firefox as I, > they're used to the toggle. You've got to be consistent across the entire > interface and do what USERS expect. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Erek Speed <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I think <Esc> is probably intuitive for closing a dialog box, perhaps >> more so then toggling. I think the issue brought up by Finnur is much >> more relevant. Having to hit ctrl-f twice for focus would be >> annoying. >> >> On Jan 30, 3:51 pm, S D Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > That's not the point -- It should toggle as that's intuitive and good >> User >> > Interface development. >> >> > > > -- > Cheers, > Steve > http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen > > > > > -- Rahul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
