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firefox-like search bar?
by anonimous on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @06:09

hi, will any of these two programs support a firefox-like search bar?

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by superstoned on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @06:41

Both have a searchbar on top of the preview sidepane, much more usefull as it also highlights found items in the previewpane and only shows relevant pages. Nothing a firefox-like searchbar would add to that. I'd rather see such a searchbar in KDElibs, and used instead of the currend find dialog in all apps (maybe with an optional fallback to that dialog), btw :D

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by Ricard on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @06:56

aha!! I hadn't realized that search bar (it's in KPDF aswell!!) Talk about a naive user, jejeje

I think a nice feature would be that the Ctrl+F shortcut would make the search bar gain focus instead of showing the find dialog. Maybe give the user some feedback about the focus. And maybe add to the search bar two buttons for cycling over the results.

anyway, both viewers look great!

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by Sven on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @07:35

Yeah, cool. I didnt notice it before either. Maybe because my preview pane is usually not so wide. I think it might deserve a more prominent place.

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by dave on Thursday 15/Feb/2007, @03:04

what is definitely missing is the option to cycle through your results. Personally I don't see the feature of displaying only the pages with a particular keyword as particularly useful/usable.

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by Niels on Saturday 24/Feb/2007, @10:28

> Personally I don't see the feature of displaying only the pages with a
> particular keyword as particularly useful/usable.

I must have looked at 100+ scientific papers in KPDF, and I really enjoyed this feature. If you've already read the paper it's a lot easier to re-find the place you were looking for by scrolling the previewer, and if you don't know the article it gives a very quick overview of how many times and where your search term occurs. When you're fumbling around in the (huge) literature for something perhaps relevant it's very helpful.

Thumbs-up to KPDF from here, keep up the good work :-)

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by Wilfried Huss on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @09:16

Ligature and its predecessor have such a search bar since KDE 3.5.

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by Martin on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @10:13

Wilfried,

You mentioned long ago that there might be a Ligature release for KDE 3.x. Is that still the plan?

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Re: firefox-like search bar?
by Wilfried Huss on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @13:24

> You mentioned long ago that there might be a Ligature release for KDE 3.x. Is that still the plan?

Yes, that is still the plan. That was the whole point of doing parallel
development of a KDE3 and KDE4 version in the first place. Unfortunately
I have been really busy in job and private life lately, so I didn't find
time to work on Ligature in the last months.

Hopefully we will be able to release soon, since no more new features are
planed, just stabilization and bugfixing.

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