On 13 November 2012 15:56, Alex Fiestas <afies...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2012 15:56:11 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 13:13:36 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 November 2012 11:21:34 Marco Martin wrote: > > > > agree on above points, i'm not sure how much mainstream krunner can > be > > > > made > > > > (and yes, it has to be way more visible), > > > > even if the text field would be always visible or anyways easily > > > > reachable > > > > unfortunately a big part of public still needs to browse, don't know > > > > exactly the psychological reason, but that's what i seen over and > over > > > > again. > > > > > > People are used to Google and googling everything though but that's > > > something you do when you want to explore or to get NEW information, > not > > > > unfortunately, that is not true. that is just "geek wisdom" that is > > patently, utterly false. > > > > it is a surprise to just about every. single. person. that i demonstrate > how > > you can "search for anything" on your computer. only mac users are > familiar > > with the idea, and then only for user files and a few other select items > > via spotlight (and even then, many mac users are surprised this feature > > exists on the OS they use!) > > > > even plainly visible search fields outside of file managers (e.g. in > system > > settings) are often passed by when people look for things. > > > > so , no ... people are not used to searching everything. this may be > > generational, however, and "digital natives" may be more used to this. > I haven't said nothing that contradicts what you said on which I fully > agree > (I have mentioned in the past the exact case of osx users don't knowing > spotlight). > > I introduced the Google example because in the Web realm, even the not > digital > native search for everything and everywhere and those same people use > bookmarks or other similar mechanism for their favorites. > > There is an obvious reason why people had to get used to search in the web > and > it is its size. People are getting more and more data on their local > devices > so they will have to get use to search as well. >
This discussion reminded me of https://blog.mozilla.org/faaborg/2009/10/13/browsing-your-personal-web/which is about search & browse interfaces. Hope it's food for thought for anyone who hasn't seen it before - it certainly struck a chord with me first time I read it.
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