https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53541
Roman Eisele <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |NOTABUG --- Comment #5 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> --- Thank you very much for your answer! I completely understand your explanation. Yes, it is easy to miss the little “Find” palette window, and I agree this behaviour is not what a user who migrated from MS Office (or switches between both applications) would expect. Actually, in LibreOffice 3.3 and 3.4 we had mostly the same behaviour as in MS Office; the new differentiation between “Find” palette window and “Find and Replace” dialog window was introduced in LibreOffice 3.5. The model for the new “Find” palette window is not MS Office, but the “Find” palette window in Mozilla Firefox and some other applications. Actually some users demanded such a little “Find” palette/toolbar widged. The advantage of the “Find” palette window is that it always can stay visible, integrated into some toolbar or floating freely, just as the user likes it, and therefore it is intentionally unobstrusive. So IMHO we have a little conflict of interests here: on the one hand, similarity to MS Office makes migration and interchange easier, and so some users would prefer the old behaviour (e.g. you, and maybe me, too); on the other hand, other users prefer the little unobstrusive “Find” palette which can always stay visible to allow fast searching. We can not get both advantages at once, and therefore to me the current solution: having two different windows, one with Ctrl+F and one with Ctrl+H, seems a reasonable compromise. But I don’t want to persuade you; I just wanted to explain why we have this little difference from MS Office ;-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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