268929 - The clear search button on the RHS of the toolbar now looks like it should dismiss the search bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Potts]

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The 'clear' button which appears in the search bar when it contains
some text now (version 0.9) looks identical to the tab close button;
it's not at all obvious that it's going to simply clear the text, and
I've been avoiding using it because I thought it would close the
search bar; and naively wondering where the 'clear' button got to.
I finally realised that the new button *is* the 'clear' button, but
it's a terribly confusing choice of icon; it just seems to be a bit
of bad UI design.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. type some text into the search bar
2. observe the small, square orange button
3. press it

Actual Results:  
the text is cleared

Expected Results:  
from the design of the button I would have expected the search bar itself
to be deleted, which is not what I want, but it is what I've come to expect
when I click on small, square orange buttons with white crosses in them!