[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #9781: Favorite queries in Find panel
- From: "humdinger" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 09:36:41 -0000
#9781: Favorite queries in Find panel
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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This is hrev45646.
I've been thinking on #9780 and remembered an idea I posted about
somewhere many years ago. Couldn't find it anymore...
It's about adding favorite query (templates) to the Find panel. I often
find it cumbersome to start with an empty find panel and having to choose
the filetype I look for and then adding the attributes I want to query
etc. I know I can create query templates and start from those instead (and
I do), but having some favorites in the find panel directly seems to be a
good idea.
Mockup:
[[Image(find-panel-mockup.png)]]
This mockup also includes what I commented on in #9780. The "+ / -"
buttons are to add another attribute to search under that line or to
remove this line, of course.[[BR]]
Additionally, there's a "Favorites" expando view at the bottom, in case
someone prefers a maximum clean GUI and doesn't need favorites. (There
could be a "Favorites" menu item in the menubar as well, for "purists").
This is how I could imagine it working:[[BR]]
You add the currently constructed query by drag'n'dropping the query
symbol from the top into an empty slot below. I used LaunchBox for my
mockup, maybe its code can useful as well.[[BR]]
The icon depends on the query's targetted mime type.[[BR]]
If you drop different querys with the same mime-type, like image/png,
image/jpeg, image/gif, onto an existing icon of the same supertype, the
icon gets an overlay arrow and works like a pop-up menu to access all the
favorite queries of that super-type.[[BR]]
Tooltips show details of a favorite, i.e. the searched mime type and
attributes, for example:
{{{
MPEG audio file
Artist | Title
}}}
You remove an item with a context menu.
The query templates of those favorites can be saved in their respective
super-type subfolder under ~/config/settings/Tracker/QueryFavorites
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