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Bug 17633

Summary: Info on right of Search Filesystems result dialog is not seen by new users
Product: utilities Reporter: David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component: SearchAssignee: issues@www <issues>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker Keywords: UI
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 33418    

Description David-john Burrowes 2001-11-13 23:43:05 UTC 
The "Search Filesystems" result window has a problem revealed by a recent usability test.
Participants, either didn't see the list of positions on the right (often because it was obscured). Even when they did, they didn't realize they 
could double click on an individual position.  Instead, all participants double-clicked on the file names  in the left panel and then tried to 
locate the relevant text within the source window by hand, with the Find command or by looking up the line number listed  in the Position 
list.

It might be good to intermix the information on the left and right panels in some manner.  For instance, if a tree were used, expanind a file 
might show the positions within it (the relevant line of text could be shown to the right of this as well).  Such as

* My File
  -  34:   sample source line
  - 123:  another sample line
* My Second File
  - ...
Comment 1 Jiri Mzourek 2001-11-14 08:54:42 UTC 
*** Issue 17632 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 17:26:31 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 3 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:53:58 UTC 
Set target milestone to TBD
Comment 4 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:56:23 UTC 
Set target milestone to TBD
Comment 5 Marian Petras 2003-06-02 10:09:29 UTC 
*** Issue 33718 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 Marian Petras 2004-10-18 14:39:06 UTC 
Implemented together with fixes of bugs #19484 ("OOME when performing
search on larger FS") and #33717 ("Find:  should show the matching text").

The search results window is no longer split into two panels. When a
node representing a matching object is expanded, its subnodes display
matching lines found in the object's primary file. Within each line,
the matching text is in bold.
Comment 7 Marian Petras 2004-10-18 16:06:14 UTC 
*** Issue 35733 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***