Re: Find Bar

Hi,

You brought up some very interesting points, thank you. I think the
regular expressions would be useful, but you are right they might not
belong in the find bar itself. I would be open to the idea of making
them part of the "advanced" find dialog. In regards to putting
replace in the new find bar, I think it would be a really good idea.
However, I would have to be careful not to make the interface too
cluttered and confusing to the users. Any ideas in regards to both
these issues would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I would like to make my intentions clear. I am hoping to do
this as part of the GSoC program, but I have real desire to see this
implemented even if I am not selected. I find that most find dialogs
in word processors are often too clunky and just get in the way,
especially for simple searches. Therefore, I feel that this would be
a really useful feature to have in AbiWord.

Thanks
Alex

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Bobby Weinmann
<bobby.weinmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know that regular expressions are a good idea for a "quick"
> find bar. I'm not strongly opposed though.
> The one thing that annoys me about the FF find bar is that there is no
> "whole word" option.
> What does everyone think of the ability to replace with this bar? At
> least 50% of the time when I "find" in a word processor, it's to
> replace.
>
> Thanks for picking this up. Good luck.
>
> Bobby
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Alexander Haro <amduser29@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am a student interested in improving the find/replace dialog of
> > AbiWord for the gsoc program. I was wondering what the developers of
> > AbiWord thought would be useful features to have implemented for this
> > project. I understand that AbiWord is designed for 'non-tech' people,
> > but I think it is important to hear the input of the developers as
> > well. What I am currently imagining is a find bar that is very
> > similar to Firefox. It would include a find as you type feature much
> > like the typeaheadfind component of Firefox. I also plan to add
> > regular expressions (which could be turned on and off) similar to
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6534.
> >
> > Look forward to hearing back from the list! I can also be contacted by
> > IRC nick amduser.
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
Received on Thu Mar 27 18:59:43 2008