[sylpheed:31863] Re: Search box focus

Bob White bob at bob-white.com
Mon Oct 22 23:21:06 JST 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:34:58 -0500
Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at peoplepc.com> wrote:

> Bob White <bob at bob-white.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:49:58 -0500
> >Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Something I never noticed before, but have in 2.4.7/Win32 is that on
> >> opening the Search Messages box there is no cursor focus.  Shouldn't
> >> it be in the upper right, across from From contains??
> >> 
> >> Gene Goldenfeld
> >
> >On 2.4.7/Linux the find button is highlighted.  3 tabs brings the
> >cursor to the text box.  I think it would make more sense functionally
> >to have the cursor in the text box to start with.  I almost always have
> >to type something in before I search.  The exception would be when I
> >sometimes close the search box, open it again in a different folder and
> >I want to do the same search there.
> 
> You're right, the focus is on Find.  The text box is what I meant by
> upper right.  Wouldn't the Enter key suffice for handling your
> exception?  Thanks.
> 
> Gene

Yes it would!

Bob W.


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