[haiku-development] Re: Improved Find Panel
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:47:24 +0200 CEST
Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Other than that, for a "next gen" find panel, I think it's quite a
> > small change, especially the handling of persistent queries seems
> > to be
> > as bad as ever.
> Well, I didn't know that "Next Generation" would be displayed so
> prominently. I thought it
> was just an alt-tag for the image... :)
:-)
> The big improvement IMO is the live results while entering the search
> terms.
I'm not sure this will work with the current BFS - its index is not
really user friendly, ie. it can only deliver some results almost
instantly (like numbers, or exact string comparisons). It's really slow
when you start using wildcards (which is what Tracker does by default).
> What do you mean with persistent queries? Saved queries?
> I could imagine two more drop-down menus beside the quick icon bar:
> "Recent Queries" and
> "Saved Queries". The latter listing all non-temporary queries in ~/
> queries/ and an item to
> open that folder.
Saved queries, yes, and those where you remove the "temporary" flag.
> > For text based search, I think we should get rid of the "contains"
> > pop-
> > up altogether, and only show it in some kind of expert mode. Maybe
> > have
> > only a simple query string by default that is automatically or'ed
> > for
> > all attributes of that type. Ie. when you search for "humdinger" in
> > mails, it could query all public mail string attributes at once.
> I'm not sure that this isn't "dumbing it down" too much. I normally
> have a specific enough
> clue what I look for; is it the subject or the sender? the artist or
> the title. I wouldn't
> want to enter "Axel" and e.g. get the million mails I've sent to you,
> when I really want
> to see the one I got from you. If I look for one of the very few
> bands starting with
> "The", I don't need every song title with a "the" in it... :)
True enough, but I don't want to remove those features, just don't make
them as visible - your case would be a refinement of a query. I'm not
sure it's a good idea to introduce a "simple" and an "advanced" mode
(let alone entering the formula directly), but if this is not solvable
in a nice way else, I see no way around that (the current simple mode
only scans the name index, so this would already be an improvement).
Bye,
Axel.
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