On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:47 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321145 > > There's this sort of old Unixy tradition of making text > viewers bring up the find dialog or toolbar when you hit > the / key, just as if you had hit Ctrl+F. > > Epiphany 1.8.2 has the following behavior: > * Typing anything but slash or space starts type-ahead > find on link text only. Once you're in this mode, > slashes and spaces just append to your search string. > * Typing a slash starts type-ahead find on all the text > in the page. It doesn't bring up a find toolbar or > anything. It just shows what you're searching for in > the status bar. > * Typing space scrolls. > * Typing Ctrl+F brings up the find toolbar, which does > not do type-ahead find. > > Yelp has the following behavior right now: > * Typing anything but a space starts type-ahead find > on link text only. Once you're in this mode, spaces > just append to your search string. > * Typing space scrolls. > * Typing Ctrl+F brings up the find toolbar, which *does* > do type-ahead find. > > I don't like that slash and Ctrl+F are different kids of > search in Epiphany. I do, however, find link text search > very useful from time to time. > > Having slash bring up the find toolbar in Yelp would > conflict with type-ahead on links whenever there's some > link text with slashes in it. But then, maybe I'm just > making too much out of an odd corner case. > > The whole slash thing probably doesn't matter to many > "average" users (read: not *nix geeks). But those > pesky vi users just love it. > > Thoughts?
I am not sure how applicable this is, but I remember at one point in firefox typing a slash "/" in a form would start a text search. This was very frustrating when blogging or filling in any in depth form fields. I say this because I think leaving Ctrl-F as the find shortcut is plenty in the vast majority of situation. It also provides some level of consistency across platforms, which I think is a "good thing". After all, someone may "try" Ctrl-F to find something when they will probably not use "/" to find something purposely. Just my two cents. Eric _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
