On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 04/08/2011 05:39, Jerry ha scritto: >> Hi list, > Hi Jerry, >> The Find dialog is modal. This combined with not having any command-key >> equivalents for Next and Previous means that it is usually in your way to >> even read what is being displayed. >> >> The Find dialog requires two clicks (check box then button) to search >> backwards assuming the current mode is forwards. There should be a Find Next >> _button_ and a Find Previous _button_. > > Did you try the Advanced Find dialog (activated by [Ctrl+Shift+F] on Linux, > or Edit menu) ? It is not modal but rather a dockable panel, it still has no > separate forward and backward button, but at least you can use 2 convenient > shortcuts: [Return] to search forward, and [Shift+Return] to go backwards. > This was a reasonable trade-off leaving more space on the dialog itself for > other things.
A little better, yes, but even docked it still hogs screen space when not in use. And the Shift-Return option isn't obvious. Also, I happened to have Change Tracking activated when I typed in this Advanced Find field and the text that I typed was underlined and blue. > > Thanks for all the comments, even though I'm not a Mac user I'm quite sure > they'll be useful for improving the tool. > > T.
