Bug 161415 - The incremental search field lacks a clear button
Summary: The incremental search field lacks a clear button
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: part (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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: 175465 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-04-29 22:09 UTC by Nicolas Brisset
Modified: 2011-08-17 15:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 4.7.1


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Description Nicolas Brisset 2008-04-29 22:09:30 UTC
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...
Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping 2008-07-15 00:27:44 UTC
I could imagine this to hurt usability, not help. Just my 2 cents.
Comment 2 Murz 2008-11-10 08:52:34 UTC
Confirm this bug on KDE 4.1.3 in Kubuntu Intrepid.
Comment 3 Robin Pedersen 2008-11-18 08:56:26 UTC
*** Bug 175465 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 michaell 2009-09-02 12:26:48 UTC
(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.
Comment 5 Burkhard Lück 2011-07-28 15:55:21 UTC
Reason seems to be that searchbarincremental.ui + searchbarpower.ui use QComboBox, but afaik only KComboBox has the clear button
Comment 6 Dominik Haumann 2011-07-30 17:22:43 UTC
Fixed for KDE 4.7.1.

http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=commit&h=e005a68ad469811c3c405753a2d225c060ac6f32
Comment 7 Nicolas Brisset 2011-08-17 15:24:57 UTC
Cool! Thanks a lot.