Re: [egit-dev] Why is find on the botton and not on the top of the Histo

[Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias,

> On 17 Jun 2016, at 00:44, Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> note in case someone wants to implemen this:
>  
> visibility of the find toolbar should be kept configurable since it disables 
> incremental loading of the history which will eat a lot of heap on large repositories


Some apps (eg. Mail, Chrome) only show the search widget after pressing the find shortcut (eg. ctrl+f or cmd+f). Then when pressing Esc it goes away again. I like that a lot from a usability point and I think it would work for your lazy loading case, too.

-Gunnar