Re: [libreoffice-design] Find and replace

On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 07:45 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: 

> Hi Andrew, Planas!
>
> Am Freitag, den 14.10.2011, 19:45 -0400 schrieb planas:
> > On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 13:49 -0400, Andrew Pullins wrote: 
> >
> > > why is it that the "Find and Replace" hot key was changed from "clrt + F" to
> > > "clrt + alt + F". every program that I have ever used has ctrl + F as find.
> > > ctrl + F does not seem to do any thing right now. so why did this change.
> > > this was a bad decision, for users are used to the old hot key. why change
> > > it on them.
> >
> > I have cntl+F for find only and cntl+alt+F for find/replace on 3.4.3
> > using Ubuntu/Pinguy 11.04. I prefer having cntl+F and alt+F because both
> > only need two fingers. 
>
> CTRL+F should open the search toolbar - if not, then the configuration
> is messed up, or (maybe) the search bar has been switched off via the
> toolbar menu entry in View. Currently, the search bar is a toolbar
> (which is a bit weird, but was chosen by the devs because of easier
> implementation).

I should be clearer, CTRL+F opened the search toolbar - at the bottom of
the screen. Some may miss it because of its location does not get one's
attention - initially I did not notice it. 

> For more information about the issue (and chances to contribute to make
> the search experience better), see:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Find_Bar#Issue
>
> Greetings from the conference (or more detailed: shortly before
> breakfast) :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph



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