Bug 43366

Summary:	Replace confirm dialog does not move to avoid hiding selected text
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	greenrd
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ana
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description greenrd 2002-06-01 22:48:32 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kate
Version:           KDE 3.0.1 
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.1 20020522 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.1-2)
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

When you do a search and replace with the confirm checkbox on the confirm dialog can sometimes hide the text to be replaced. This can confuse newbies and entails needless dialog-dragging to move the dialog out of the way.

Either the dialog should move around automatically to avoid obscuring text - or thinking more laterally it should be a temporary pane at the bottom of the window instead of a dialog box - that way no "jumping around" is necessary even if the document is too small to scroll.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 hughjonesd 2003-02-23 15:44:18 UTC

I think the ideal would be like Outlook/Konqueror/Evolution: a search pane that drops 
down from the top of the window.

Comment 2 Riku Voipio 2003-10-28 20:57:57 UTC

closely (IMHO) related: (from debian BTS #187339)

In the search/replace function, when prompted whether yes or not to replace,
it's not possible to scroll the text window to the left or right, in order to
have a look at the preceding or following text. In previous versions,
this problem didn't exist...

Comment 3 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2007-12-06 23:53:09 UTC

In KDE 4 there is a search pane as suggested in comment #1 (at the bottom of the window, though). So no dialog to interfere with scrolling or obscuring the view.

Closing.