294444 - Improper Icons in the FIND component bar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Rajesh Sundaram]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In the FIND component bar that pops up in the bottom, there are two icons
associated for FIND NEXT and FIND PREVIOUS actions. These two icons are actually
pointing UP and DOWN. It actually miscommunicates like "SEARCH UP" and "SEARCH
DOWN".

I believe from usability perspective, the arrow icons should point to RIGHT for
FIND NEXT and point to LEFT for FIND Previous.

This setup is found in most common household appliances like DVD players, music
players etc. Even software like iTunes, WinAMP uses this standard convention.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. PRESS COMMAND+F
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Actual Results:  
The function works properly, but the icons miscommunicate the actual idea.

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

I think the key here is to seperate them from the "forward" and "back" buttons
in the toolbar.  the up and down buttons also have a greater similarity to how
the application works, since most often going back a word or forward a word
actualy takes you "up" and "down" the page.

As such I see no reason for this to be changed.

Comment 2

[Rajesh Sundaram]

Understood. This makes sense. Thanks. 

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think the key here is to seperate them from the "forward" and "back" buttons
> in the toolbar.  the up and down buttons also have a greater similarity to how
> the application works, since most often going back a word or forward a word
> actualy takes you "up" and "down" the page.
> 
> As such I see no reason for this to be changed.