[haiku-commits] Re: r41493 - in haiku/trunk/src/apps: . musiccollection

  • From: "Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:37:24 +0200

> Am 14.05.2011 14:16, schrieb Michael Lotz:
> >> Author: czeidler
> >> Date: 2011-05-14 09:08:26 +0200 (Sat, 14 May 2011)
> >> New Revision: 41493
> >> Changeset: https://dev.haiku-os.org/changeset/41493
> >> Log:
> >> Add a simple query app to search all music files on all volumes.
> >> Entries are searched and displayed on the fly while typing the 
> > > search
> > string. The query searches for artist, album and title. After some
> > smaller improvements it could be integrated into media player.
> >
> > That's more or less exactly why I introduced typeahead filtering in
> > Tracker. It works on folders, but also on queries. You can just 
> > store a
> > query searching for all music, enabling the attribures you desire, 
> > and
> > then just use typeahead filtering to filter that result.
> 
> It just shows the problem with "hidden features".

I agree, but what to do about it? Enable it by default? Unless it 
actually starts filtering right away it's still hidden, but if it does 
filter right away it replaces the "only select the best match, not 
filter for it" thing that is in place right now and I hear people 
opposing to that...

Regards
Michael

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