Hey Avi, For the primary icon we should probably be using "edit-find-symbolic" with the fallback.
Best Regards, Daniel Foré www.elementaryos.org On Jan 15, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Avi Romanoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > After some discussion in IRC yesterday (and previously) there was a consensus > that we should use GtkEntry's placeholder-text property that exists in 3.0. > Granite.Widgets.HintedEntry did basically what placeholder-text does, with > the addition of italics, which Dan agreed aren't really helpful/necessary. > > Therefore it makes sense to drop HintedEntry entirely from Granite. However, > Granite.Widgets.SearchBar -- the only child of HintedEntry -- should be > retained. > This is because it adds a number of useful features the the standard entry: > > - 'gtk-find' as primary icon > - 'edit-clear-symbolic' as secondary icon (with fallback) > - intelligently showing/hiding the secondary icon > - click the secondary icon to clear the entry > - new signal and configurable delay when the user has stopped typing -- > useful for a search callback > > So, it would make sense to keep SearchBar around and simply have it inherit > from HintedEntry, and keep the API exactly the same. > > I have done this in a feature-branch here: > https://code.launchpad.net/~aroman/granite/entries-redux > > The only really significant thing here is that we're dropping a widget > entirely. If there is support for it, I could add the HintedEntry back in and > simply use the placeholder-text property, and give it a deprecation warning. > > There are no public API changes to SearchBar (or HintedEntry if the above is > implemented) > > Oh, and fwiw here's what it would look like to replacate what HintedEntry > does with Gtk.Entry in your code: > > search_box = new Gtk.Entry (); > search_box.placeholder_text = _("Search Plugs"); > > So just one more line. > > (Also note the wording -- the "Labeling" section has been added to the HIG. > Please look it over and make any changes that are appropriate: > http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/ui-toolkit-elements/search-fields) > > Thanks, > Avi > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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