Howdy, I have been using VI, man pages etc for years. I know that to search I can usually do a slash or question mark (Long live VI)
The reason slash is not exactly intuitive in a GUI browser is that chances are your focus is in the URL bar, or inside an editing component. SO even if you try slash it won't work unless you are in a non editable component of the UI that can recive the /. In fact I'd bet people are so conditioned to Control-F in a GUI (except when I'm on my MAC) that slash isn't something I would think about on a GUI. I should note, Control-F (And F is a good mnemonic too) can require less work since it will usually work within any context the browser is in. But my main grievance for many years is how unobtrusive searching is in things like VI (Or man pages, or MORE - command prompt paging utilities) yet in a GUI I get a box popping up over the same area I'm trying to view. Admittedly when I am doing extensive web page browsing I go full screen, and my main goal is to FIND things. At least in the status bar it is clearly out of the way. And the highlight feature works very well. This wasn't meant to ignite a browser war. Not often I come across something so simple, that it defines which choice of software I use. Konqueror's coolest feature is "Archiving Web Pages". It sure beats using curl or wget etc when you are looking to archive a few sites. Mike Mike On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 18:21 -0600, Scott Zuk wrote: > On October 22, 2004 5:37 pm, Michael Petch wrote: > > The problem with KDE is that / is not intuitive (I wasn;t even aware of > > the / ). In fact at first I thought you had to put a slash in the url > > bar. But you have to click in the document first wihich emans that you > > have to know to put the focus in the document, and you need to know > > the / command even exists. > > > > Firefox is different. I didn't need to go hunting in a manual or an on- > > line document to see the feature. It was there. Plain and simple. > > Konqueror uses control-f (and the slash). Control-F is the old style pop > > up. In fact - maybe what Konequeror is lacking is that there is nothing > > in the normal search box to tell you about the / command at all. > > > > From rom a user standpoint, I didn't need to be a power user to get it to > > work. On this feature it wins hands down over Konqi and IE. > > > > The best UI's are the ones where the user doesn't have to think about > > it. It is just there. The UI is a tool for me to manipulate my computer, > > not a mechanism for the software to manipulate me. > > > > Konqi also lacks the highlight (for all occurrences), unless there is > > another special key sequence I have to hit for that too? > > > > Mike > > Hi, > > Just a note here, the / to find is not a KDE specific feature. It has been a > relatively standard shortcut of many unix command line tools for ages. Try > it out in less, man, info, vi and others. Also ? is commonly used to find > backwards. I agree using / is not intuitive but its addition in KDE was > definately appreciated by people used to using it. > > ~Scott > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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