[bt-devel] QtWebKit version

Gary Holmlund gary.holmlund at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 22:40:14 MST 2009


Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Gary Holmlund wrote:
>> Martin Gruner wrote:
>>> Gary,
>>>
>>> sounds great!
>>>
>>> For me the find dialog is broken somewhat. When I press "Ctrl+F", I 
>>> get a warning about an ambiguous shortcut, nothing happens. When I 
>>> select "Find" from the context menu, the find dialog is under the 
>>> key chooser widget. Something might be messed up here. I attached a 
>>> screenshot.
>>>
>>> mg
>>>   
>> Martin,
>>
>> I don't see either of these problems. Can you make sure you do a 
>> clean build. Delete the build/CMakeCache.txt file and do a "make 
>> clean" in the build directory. Then rebuild.
>>
>
> I don't have problems either, it works fine.
>
> Couple of minor things found:
>
>  "Case Sensitive" should be "Case sensitive".
>
> Also I wonder if "Text to find:" is necessary. There is the window 
> title, and the user probably knows he has opened the Find dialog. It 
> just takes valuable space for no good reason. (KDE3 Kate Find Text 
> dialog is NOT a good example of good usability IMHO. It could be much 
> less space consuming.)
>
> The KDE4 KWrite Find bar gives a hint for saving space. The dialog 
> could have a popup menu button for toggle options (like a display 
> window "Display settings" button). Then there could be only the text 
> box and one line of buttons: Options, Find and Close. Options would 
> have "Case sensitive" and "Find backwards". But these are suggestions 
> only and under discussion.
>
> Usually the Find dialog is modal (or at least stays on top), otherwise 
> it gets lost behind the other window when you click something. It's 
> quite annoying to dig it up again.
>
> For quick fixes I suggest these: Remove the "Text to find" line and 
> possibly put "Find:" before the text box. Change S to s. Make the 
> dialog stay on top.
>
> --Eeli Kaikkonen

I have done the quick fixes. Thanks for the input.

Gary




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