[Libreoffice] [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [REVIEW 3.4] FindBar silently reuses options from the Search & Replace dialog

Astron heinzlesspam at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 27 02:41:12 PDT 2011


> This seems to be unexpected - using the FindBar, one should be able to
> find everything.

That would be my assumption when using it, too.


> With the patch I am proposing for cherry-picking to 3.4 (I have pushed
> that to master), the options are unset when you use the FindBar, ie. it
> resets whatever flags the user has set in the Search & Replace dialog
> too.  This is not easy to fix, so I wonder if you consider this stop-gap
> solution bearable for the users?

Is this serious enough to warrant fixing it in a point release? As a
stop-gap measure it certainly seems an adequate solution, but I'd
rather the focus be on decoupling Find bar and Search/Replace dialogue
for 3.5. Just two currency units.

Astron.


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