On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:36:41 +0100, Nick wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:55:32 +0200 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
I still think it makes things only more sophisticated and confusing. Though I don't have a strong opinion on that. So, if anyone wants to go for it, ok.
About Christoph's screenshot: the dialog looks way too big to just search something, IMO. If I see the Replace field, I would first think that I opened the wrong dialog when I just want to search text. But that's probably just me.
Yes, it's not really relevant to the discussion IMO.
I was thinking the Find menu item could hide the replace dialog parts as they could probably be in an expander anyway. The Replace menu item would expand the replace area.
My previously mentioned argument is still valid: if I want to search something, I open a Find dialog and then I don't want to be confused with replace options, I just want to search.
I see I'm quite picky on that, not sure why :).
I also see that one could say: why maintaining two dialogs for somewhat related functionality and except the above, I can't answer much more. It's more something emotional than rationale, for me :).
Hiding replace stuff in an expander makes it less worse but still not good, for me.
But once more: I don't have a strong opinion on that. It's just my feeling is somewhat against. As long as I don't find good arguments to prove my feeling, I won't be against :).
Regards, Enrico