On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:25:55 -0400 "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
However, when keyboard users find out that they can enter the field in a "search backward mode", it will look like a bug if there's no indication that widget bahaves differently but doesn't *look* different. With GUI's, if a widget behaviour changes, I think it should *look* like it has changed. If you don't like seeing the color change, you could always set its color to that of the default search field background. ;)
My point was just that there's no colour I associate with 'backwards', so it's not a particularly clear indication. Changing the button image to the up arrow does correspond with backwards.
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- When in search backward mode, do the buttons reverse their
meanings? and 2. When in search backward mode, should Ctrl-G take you *forward* through the page or back? (Shift-Ctrl-G will take you the opposite direction.)
Well, I'm not keen on the button idea as I wrote before, but the behaviour would be like that, i.e. an ISB would make find next search up the document and find previous search down.
Regarding #2, I'm a bit of a crank. I've never liked using the Shift modifier to make a Ctrl-key action do its *reverse* (or compliment). Geany typically uses the Shift modifier to *augment* whatever the given Ctrl-key keybinding does. And Geany usually uses 2 separate keys for commonly-used complementary actions. Ctrl-G and Shift-Ctrl-G is about the only exception to that general rule, and to me it sticks out like a sore thumb. Yes, I realize it's pretty common GUI usage, but I don't think that makes it correct. :)
GTK users are used to it though. I don't think we'll change it - it's getting too complicated to move keybindings around, we've used pretty much all the available shortcuts.
Regards, Nick