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Search Toolbar visibility #158

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AlexZeitler opened this issue May 4, 2011 · 7 comments
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Search Toolbar visibility #158

AlexZeitler opened this issue May 4, 2011 · 7 comments

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@AlexZeitler
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Yet another one on search experience ;-)
I think it would be more comfortable if the search bar would be visible on ILSpy start up.
Searching for types or members is imho the #1 use case when using ILSpy so why enforce this additional click every time you start ILSpy?

@eusebiu
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eusebiu commented May 4, 2011

I would implement this feature like this:

  • when open ILSpy, the Search bar is visible and the panel have the same height as the search bar.
  • when the Search menu is activated, the search bar gets focus
  • when results were found, a nice roll effect - down - would change the height of the search panel, showing the list of results
  • when removing the text form search bar, the roll effect reversed - up.

What do you think?

@AlexZeitler
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My intention behind this issue was to save time by not having to click anywhere or activate something to be able to search.

When implemented the way you described I'll always have to delete the text entered in the search bar to get rid of the additional elements - thus I'm losing time.

@eusebiu
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eusebiu commented May 4, 2011

I understand your intention but you can activate/focus the search bar using F3.
If you want to delete the text, we can think of one key (like Escape) to remove the text from the search bar. Also, there are no additional elements. The list will still be present; the only thing that will be changed is the way to show/hide it to/from the user.

@AlexZeitler
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this sounds ok to me - especially the ESC key.

@KrisVandermotten
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I agree with eusebiu about F3: there really is no need to change anything.

However, if we're dreaming about the ultimate user experience, ideally a small search box should always be visible, right aligned in the toolbar. And it should look and behave more or less like the search box in FireFox or IE8.

@CodesInChaos
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I agree with Kris. The search input should be in the right part of the toolbar and be always visible. Once you search the current panel is shown.

@dgrunwald
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I'm closing this issue; we currently have no intentions of changing this.

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