Windows 7 Taskforce

Readability when performing a search

Submitted by n49o7 on March 3, 2010 to Usability

Problem: Look at the two windows in the screenshot.
On the left, when performing a search for "jpg" in Explorer, the adress bar reads "search results".
On the right, when searching for "automatic" in the control panel, the adress bar displays the path to "all control panels".
So when you want to know what you're doing in that window (for some reason), you read the adress bar aaaand ... find nothing interesting, nothing that tells you exactly what you're doing. You could have two search windows for example. You have to move your eyes over to the search bar area. I think that's annoying, because the search bar is so insignificant.

Solution: Make the adress bar display something useful like " [Search path] > Search for [search term] " or something like that.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

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