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Build 20020123 I wanted to do a search, and figured I could find the action on the search view in addition to the toolbar button. It's there on the search toolbar, but not on its context menu. This is awkward for accessibility. Toolbar buttons are hard to get to with keyboard only. Now, search also appears in the Edit menu, and even has an accelerator (Ctrl+H), but this is not the most visible. In general, toolbar buttons should be shortcuts for what's available on the menus. In the case of the view toolbar, toolbar actions should also appear on its context menu.
I don't mind to change this, but we have flipped this already more than once. For 1.0 the rule was to not replicate View actions that are not selection sensitive in the context menu. I agree with your accessability concern. There is need for some guidelines: - which actions go into a View's context menu - which actions go into the View's drop down menu - which actions go into the View's toolbar.
Usability rather than accessibility issue as the tool bar can be navigated to
The global Search menu will make search more visible. Most actions are now also available on the context menu. The only exception is the search history. We should consider adding the search history dialog as an action to the global Search menu. This will improve accessability and it is also a function that belongs there.
pls check the user interface guidelines with regard to the View menu
Could not find this in UI guidelines: it says they have to be in the menu which I understand as being in the (main) menu and not the context menu. This would mean to add the following actions to the global Search menu: - Next Match (should be merged with Next error - retarget) - Previous Match (should be merged with Next error - retarget) - Remove Match - Remove All Searches - History
Actions on toolbars also have to be available via the menus. Toolbar items should be thought of as shortcuts for what's on the menus. Generally we put actions which apply to the selection in the context menu. Actions which apply to the view as a whole (e.g. filtering / sorting) should go on the view menu (the triangle).
History operations are still not in a menu. Should offer a Search History view. Consider after 2.0.
reopen to mark as duplicate
The last remaining issue (Search History view) is covered by the another PR. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10265 ***
