[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] unfocus search entries in Views and the Journal

[Gonzalo Odiard]

>
> >> - the entry contains a hint (e.g. "Search in your Journal..."), adding
> a placeholder text is available in GTK+3.2 [2]
> >
> > Nice find. The place holder text would need to vary from place to place
> e.g. "Search journal", "Search neighbourhood", "Search group" [1], "Search
> favourite activities", "Search all activities".
>
> On one hand it provides context, agreed.  On the other, it adds text
> in the Sugar views.  I thought the magnifying glass icon was enough
> metaphor.  Specially in the home spiral, which is the face of Sugar,
> this placeholder would be the only text in it.  Not saying I'm not
> open to change, just pointing this out.
>
>

But we have a lot of reports of people confusing the activity list view in
the home with the journal,
may be this change helps to avoid this issue.
+1 from my part.

Gonzalo
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