widget documentation [Re: Changing the Edit->Find menu entry]

The Edit->Find menu entry pops up a search dialog box, as seen in many other GUI application. This is an excellent idea, and maybe the dialog works perfectly under some OS/window system combinations, but for me it is almost completely broken. (See below for a detailed description.) "Find" is a pretty basic editor feature; if the existing menu entry cannot be fixed before the release, could we remove the menu entry or have it invoke a simple minibuffer-based search? The current state of affairs is IMHO quite an embarrassment. Problem: It looks horribly and works worse. :-( For one, the "Search" and "Search for:" labels do not honor the foreground color of the default face, which makes them look horribly ugly on dark background. Second, all the buttons quickly flash several thousands of times (for several seconds) after the dialog box appears. During the flashing XEmacs is unusable. The flashing repeats whenever I move or resize the dialog box window. The search area is smaller than it needs to be to show the font that is used for input. The same problem plagues some of the buttons. In some cases, I cannot focus to the search area, so the whole thing is useless. When I can, pressing Enter apparently does not do anything. I have to press the "Find Next". Likewise, the customary Escape key fails to close the dialog box. When I resize the dialog using my window manager (useful for large search strings, different fonts, etc.), even worse things start happening: the text of the current buffer starts appearing below the dialog, and you can actually input text in it! It looks like the dialog is implemented as the "gutter" of an XEmacs frame. Even worse, once XEmacs text shows up, it is impossible to focus on the input entry; all input events go to the XEmacs buffer. Attached image demonstrates that. I really don't mean this as a personal attack and I implore not to be understood that way. I would just like us to rethink whether we want to advertise this particular feature under X before it is cleaned up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ find-shot.png Content-Type: image/png Content-Encoding: base64