Hi Caleb, On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:12 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It doesn't have to dynamically appear. I just felt that Thunderbird > with its clear button in the search box felt more natural and easy to > use than highlighting the text and deleting it, as with the deskbar > applet, for example. However, a clear button could be placed next to > the search box, it doesn't have to actually be in it. It's just that > in my example, it's in the box.
Evolution has a similar control [1]. Rather than having a red 'close' button appear, it has a greyed-out 'clear' icon, permanently to the right of the text entry. When you type something into the text entry, it becomes sensitive/colourful. libsexy has a control too, SexyIconEntry [2]. I suppose another reason to have a clear button is to provide some feedback that search terms have been entered and that a search is currently active - I've lost count of the times that I've been looking for an item in a list, only to realise that I'd entered some search terms earlier and had to go and clear them to look again. Of course, a tiny little clear button is unlikely to help much with this... Thanks, Phil [1] - http://philbull.googlepages.com/EvolutionSearchBar.png [2] - http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Libsexy#SexyIconEntry -- Phil Bull http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
