I will illustrate my point with evolution and rhythmbox as examples, but I see this as general issue that needs a consistent gnome wide approach.
I will give two examples of problems I have experienced and leave it to better heads for solutions because I'm not particularly familiar with the HIG. Basically, the problem is that when you have a search active or some sort of filtering, it isn't immediately obvious that this is the case and this can confuse the user. Examples: 1) Evolution. I have a folder where I file all emails relevant to ebay/paypal. I don't use ebay much and so I access this folder infrequently. When I accessed it the other day, I was really confused as to why there appeared to be only two emails in the folder. Eventually I realised that I had a search on a previous seller's name active. Everything was fine once I realized this and hit "clear". 2) Rhythmbox. Just so I make my point clear, and to show this isn't an evolution specific issue, here's another example. I had a search for "computer" active and had been listening to Radiohead's OK Computer album. Later when I clicked on "Stevie Wonder" in the Artist list in the browser, I was surprised that I wasn't shown any songs. Eventually I realised that I had to clear the search field. So I think that it has to be obvious and clearly visible when the user is in a searching/filtering mode. Lex _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
