Version: 3.1.1 (using KDE 4.1.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs The Controls inside of kate's search bar are jumping when a message appears inside of the bar. Especially the Next and Previous buttons change position. The focus of the user is on items found and he expects, that there is the same button under his mouse cursor as before, as long as he doesn't move it. But when a message is displayed this expectation doesnÄ't hold. That's bad uasability.
Created attachment 27198 [details] Initial layout of the search bar This shows the layout of kate's search bar, while end of file has not been reached
Created attachment 27199 [details] Laypout of search bar with message This shows the layout of kate's search bar at end of file.
A few months ago I tried to redesign search and replace bars for this kind of problems not to happen, but it was only possible by increasing the height of the bars, which many people didn't like, and no action was taken. Here is my last message on that, with links to earlier discussions and final layout proposals: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwrite-devel&m=121404203715399&w=2 So, if this bug is closed as WONTFIX, I guess you should just use a wider Kate window, and possibly make a wishlist report to German localization, to see if a shorter text in those messages can be arranged for.
Related to bug #168687 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168687
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=867127