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Bug 8587 - Is too hard to Restore a saved Type criteria in Find dialog...
Summary: Is too hard to Restore a saved Type criteria in Find dialog...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: utilities
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@utilities
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2000-11-28 00:05 UTC by eakle
Modified: 2009-10-03 20:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description eakle 2000-11-28 00:05:18 UTC
Select a folder in Explorer and the run menuitem "Find...".  In the subsequent
dialog I often want to search only the Type "Java source objects" (probably a
very common use case for this dialog).  However the "Java source objects" type
is not listed near the top of the Type-list.  Suggestion: can you move it up to
the top of this list by default, so I don't have to scroll to see it?
At this point, I do "Save Settings as..." to save the "Java source objects"
criteria for quick reference in the future.  However, it turns out to not be a
time saver, because it takes 4+ mouse clicks to restore a saved criteria; it is
quicker for me to scroll the list and select it again.  Suggestion: do away with
the dialog invoked by the "Restore Saved..." button and place that dialog's
droplist on the main "Customize Criteria" dialog; also, when the user selects a
saved setting from the droplist, it would be nice to scroll the Type-list so the
first type within the saved setting is visible.
Comment 1 Peter Zavadsky 2001-03-05 14:46:07 UTC
Partially fixed. Avilable in next build [main-trunk]. I made types sorted. This
not guearantee  java object type visible, but it will be possible to find
quicker. 
To the second part how should be designed the customization of criteria? That
involves to redesigne the searching a bit in more complex manner. So I leave the
bug open and look at it later, but I don't succeded it to 3.2.
Comment 2 Marian Petras 2005-05-13 16:20:49 UTC
I will not implement this enhancement. I would rather implement one or both of
the following enhancements:

   issue #30345 - "search filesystems" should restore type automatically
   issue #35256 - Specifying files to search in the Find in Files dialog

Marking as WONTFIX.