Version: 4.00.71 (KDE 4.0.71 (Alpha1) (using 4.00.71 (KDE 4.0.71 (Alpha1), compiled sources) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.18-desktop586-1mdv I'm slowly starting to use kwrite/kate from KDE4 svn, but a couple of things are still lacking polish. So I thought I'd start creating bugzilla entries to make sure that we can keep track of the ideas... I hope that's appropriate. The new incremental search dialog is really cool. But there's ont thing I find painful: when I want to change the expression I'm looking for. I often highlight with the mouse the characters to look for, then I want to paste it into the search field, but the previous text is still there. I can paste it and then erase the old part, or close the searh dialog and open it again, but I'd like to have an eraser button (like in konqueror's URL lineedit for instance) to clear the field in 1 click without losing my selection. I guess that should be fairly trivial to fix...
I could imagine this to hurt usability, not help. Just my 2 cents.
Confirm this bug on KDE 4.1.3 in Kubuntu Intrepid.
*** Bug 175465 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > I could imagine this to hurt usability, not help. Just my 2 cents. How can a clear icon hurt the usability? The current implementation is just horrible. No clear button, no contextmenu with an clear item and no history. This is just plain basic and doesn't reach KDE's standards in usability.
Reason seems to be that searchbarincremental.ui + searchbarpower.ui use QComboBox, but afaik only KComboBox has the clear button
Fixed for KDE 4.7.1. http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=commit&h=e005a68ad469811c3c405753a2d225c060ac6f32
Cool! Thanks a lot.