URL bar should display a hint when empty

Bug #1108182 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Midori Web Browser
Fix Released
Low
Dan

Bug Description

It's not obvious that Midori's URL bar also works for searching. To make it more obvious it show a hint text, like regular search fields do, e.g. "Type here to search the Web" or something along these lines but mentioning direct addresses too.

Tags: bitesize

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

FWIW,

Safari shows "Search %PROVIDER or enter an address"
Firefox shows "Go to a Website"

Changed in midori:
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: bitesize
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in midori:
status: New → Confirmed
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Dan (danleweb) wrote :

This patch set the hint text to: "Search or enter an address"

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :

Dan, can you please prepare the patch in a branch and propose a merge request?

From a quick test it looks to work.

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Dan (danleweb) wrote :
Dan (danleweb)
Changed in midori:
assignee: nobody → Dan (danleweb)
Changed in midori:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 0.5.9
Cris Dywan (kalikiana)
Changed in midori:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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