Bug 358040

Summary: [Application Overview] Show search field instead of text
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Christian Stadelmann <dah5aeZe>
Component: Application Menu (Kicker) widgetAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.5.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2016-01-15 19:09:28 UTC
Currently, Kicker shows a very large text in application overview ("Suchbegriff eingeben…" in German). It shows a longer (still very large) text when typing something ("Es wird nach »a« gesucht" in German).

I propose a different solution: Display a search field with default text ("Type to start searching") which has focus. This UI elements can be reused and will be re-cognized by users. Having a common GUI widget they are used to is easier for users than haing some text to read.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2016-01-16 16:00:08 UTC
Sorry, this is the intended design.