I found the logic of the PackageChooser from the finder to be pretty weird. You can't directly select the packages you want to search in: you need to select all, reject, then reselect the ones you want to search in. How do you think about it? -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu
Yes, the whole Finder is quite old⦠lots of things could be improved. (the best would be to replace it by a global spotlight like searchâ¦) On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> wrote:
I found the logic of the PackageChooser from the finder to be pretty weird. You can't directly select the packages you want to search in: you need to select all, reject, then reselect the ones you want to search in. How do you think about it? -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu
I replaced it in my AltBrowser by the finder toolbar without package selection: if the browser instance is scoped to a package (or a class), then all finder searches are limited to that package (or class, or set of methods, or ...). Crtl+F makes the finder toolbar appear, Esc or Ctrl+F makes it disappear. Very convenient when used like that. Could do Spotliight in the same way, thinking of it. Oh, and the finder results are a new browser showing only the results. Like that, you can find over a finder previous search in a single keystroke (Ctrl+F). Thierry 2014-10-24 12:02 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@gmail.com>:
Yes, the whole Finder is quite old... lots of things could be improved. (the best would be to replace it by a global spotlight like search...)
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> wrote:
I found the logic of the PackageChooser from the finder to be pretty weird.
You can't directly select the packages you want to search in: you need to select all, reject, then reselect the ones you want to search in.
How do you think about it?
-- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu
Hilaire could you describe how to get the PackageChooser because people may interpret it in different ways. On 24/10/14 11:53, Hilaire wrote:
I found the logic of the PackageChooser from the finder to be pretty weird.
You can't directly select the packages you want to search in: you need to select all, reject, then reselect the ones you want to search in.
How do you think about it?
It is the packager choose from the Finder tools. I don't say the tools is wrong: in the contrary both the Finder and PackageChooser are pretty well designed from usability point of view, I like them very much! What I suggest from an usability point of view: when you click in the "Packages..." button, by default the PackageChooser dialog could open with no package selected (or the previously selected ones) and not the whole packages of the system as it is now.
From the user point of view when you click the "Packages..." button you expect to start from an empty list and select a few package to search in.
It is really a minor detail, and other people may have different different view, or so? Le 24/10/2014 14:08, stepharo a écrit :
Hilaire could you describe how to get the PackageChooser because people may interpret it in different ways. On 24/10/14 11:53, Hilaire wrote:
I found the logic of the PackageChooser from the finder to be pretty weird.
You can't directly select the packages you want to search in: you need to select all, reject, then reselect the ones you want to search in.
How do you think about it?
-- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu
On 26/10/14 03:20, Hilaire wrote:
It is the packager choose from the Finder tools. I don't say the tools is wrong: in the contrary both the Finder and PackageChooser are pretty well designed from usability point of view, I like them very much!
What I suggest from an usability point of view: when you click in the "Packages..." button, by default the PackageChooser dialog could open with no package selected (or the previously selected ones) and not the whole packages of the system as it is now.
From the user point of view when you click the "Packages..." button you expect to start from an empty list and select a few package to search in.
It is really a minor detail, and other people may have different different view, or so?
Usuability is important and little glitches are annoying. So can you open a bug entry with step by step description? Tx Stef
Le 24/10/2014 14:08, stepharo a écrit :
Hilaire could you describe how to get the PackageChooser because people may interpret it in different ways. On 24/10/14 11:53, Hilaire wrote:
I found the logic of the PackageChooser from the finder to be pretty weird.
You can't directly select the packages you want to search in: you need to select all, reject, then reselect the ones you want to search in.
How do you think about it?
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