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None of the participants in a recent usability study found that used the "Find..." command had behavior that they expected. The problems they encountered included: - after typing some letters in the "Find" dialog, the Source Editor gave feedback indicating that it had found something. Satisfied that the task was completed, the participants clicked on "Close", at which point the editor scrolled back to the starting point, and discarded any indication of what it had previously found. - after clicking the "Find" button in the "Find" dialog, participants were annoyed to have the window disappear (particularly because they could not figure out how to find the next occurrence) That is, this dialog did not behave as any of the users expected. Recommendation: This dialog could be redesigned to give more expected feedback. For example, it might give intermediate feedback (as it is finding what the user is typing) that looks less like the selected results of the find (e.g. it might merely draw an outline around the text it has found). The "Close" button might also be renamed "Cancel" to give more indication that clicking it will discard the partially found result.
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
I've changed this to enhancement. Maybe we could separate the incremental search from the find dialog. I would like to make some kind of general interactive tooltip component that would display both the tooltip and code completion results and it could also display the field for the incremental search. Anyway there should be some discussion about this on nbui prior to making any decissions.
See also another incidence of this - bug 20282
Set target milestone to TBD
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See also http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23573 and http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14307 as other threads (marked as duplicates of some of the issues that are marked as duplicates of this issue) Also, there are multiple requests in these threads for a "Find Next" command in the menus. e.g.: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17636 I'm changing this to be a P2 enhancment (I'd be happy with a P3 Defect, or a P1 Enhancement, for that matter :-). If you look at all these threads, we have at least two usability tests reporting that this is a problem, and multiple users who have gone through the process to report an issue on this. It really sounds to me like the design we have isn't as good as it could be. I'm not sure what the right/best alternate design is, but it looks like someone should look into this (I'm cc'ing dirk ruiz on this since he is the head UI person for NetBeans)
We recently ran another usability study of the SunStudio IDE, and this same problem came up again.
Changing subcomponent to "search"
I "find" I'm surprised by the behavior daily, and I've been using NetBeans for 5 years :-)
*** Issue 20282 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 44079 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 23573 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 39754 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 17636 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This issue is fixed after find & replace dialog redesign. Feel free to reopen if anything is missing.
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*** Bug 179636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***