find

[Derek Atkins]

Brian <cabernet at webshield.net.au> writes:

> On Wed, 30 May 2007 08:36:22 am Derek Atkins wrote:
>> In what way does Edit -> Find not work?
>>
> Ah ! the age old developer/user nexus rears its head. Why don't users see the 
> obvious ? As one who found this confusing I vote for a user friendly icon 
> located between Duplicate and Delete to cater for this. 

Toolbar icons are only for "commonly used" functions, and "find" isn't
a common action, so according to the HIG it doesn't belong
in the toolbar.   Also, "Edit -> Find" is the HIG location
for "find", so we're following the interface guide there, too.

-derek
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