Comments on: Yelp 3.0: Location Entry

By: mpt

mpt — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:30:18 +0000

Sorry, I guess I was confused by “combined location and search entry” — I thought that meant allowing location entry too.

I guess there are several possible ways to present the current location:
- in the title bar
- in a location bar (as here)
- in the help page itself.
Doing it in the help page itself might work better when the location is a long one. It would also leave the search field as unambiguously a search field, e.g. always containing a search icon.

By: shaunm

shaunm — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:15:54 +0000

Matthew, I thought I described the interaction with it pretty clearly. If you’re typing into it, you’re entering search terms, so no, it’s not for ghelp URIs. We don’t expose URIs to users in Yelp.

By: mpt

mpt — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:04:27 +0000

Why would a help viewer have a location entry? Is this for a debugging mode, to enter ghelp: URIs etc?

By: shaunm

shaunm — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:51:58 +0000

Jonas, sure, but where would it get that information from? Completion on dictionary words? Constantly checking the search index? I guess I should play with KDE Search to see what you’re talking about.

By: Jones Lee

Jones Lee — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:52:51 +0000

I would love to see the auto-suggestion feature in which when you type the an incomplete word the app would show up the rest of word in dim grey to suggest your keyword, similar to KDE Search.

By: bochecha

bochecha — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:48:48 +0000

@Frank: Epiphany has only one entry for both location and search.

First time I tried it, I was coming from Firefox, and I was wondering « where’s this search entry ? Doesn’t Epiphany has one ? »

And then I thought « could it be merged with the location entry ? »

I tried it, and I immediately thought it was the best idea ever, and it indeed revolutionized my browser usage

So I’d say yay for usability and discoverability!

By: shaunm

shaunm — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:56:42 +0000

Michael, all right, nothing a call to gtk_cell_layout_reorder couldn’t fix.

By: shaunm

shaunm — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:05:13 +0000

Michael, GtkComboBoxEntry packs any cells you add (such as the icon here) to the right of the text. I want the icons on the left as well. As I said, work in progress.

Dannielle, I have the bookmark icon. Do you think I should do the on/off pale/bright star thing instead? I’m not convinced, but it’s something I’ll play with.

Frank, you might be right, although my web browser doesn’t have a separate search entry. We an add a menu item for Search which focuses the entry (and maybe does a quick flashing animation to draw your attention). Or an entry for “Search…” at the bottom of the history drop-down. Or it could be the whole thing’s crap and needs to be scrapped.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:17:53 +0000

It seems doubtful the search function is discoverable. Even if you click the dropdown arrow you only see a history – no indication yet that you could click onto the text field!
Separate history/search controls seem better. At least for web browsers they appear to work.

By: Danni

Danni — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:30:23 +0000

Add favourite stars like Firefox/Empathy!