Hey, Beagle-search used to include a "search scope" menu to choose the type of data to search. My experience is that this menu often got ignored. I decided to make the category chooser more visible by putting it beside the input box. I am hoping that users will now use this more and get faster and fewer results. There was also an inherent slow path in the earlier implementation; beagle-search will feel a bit quicker now. However I am not sure if this UI change is a good idea or even an improvement over the earlier. I tend to clutter GUIs by displaying all the possible options (y'no' ... like one of the other DEs). I am attaching two screenshots; scope-combobox.jpg shows the new UI and scope-menu.jpg shows the old UI. The changes are also available in the svn trunk. Try the svn trunk, take a look at the screenshots. I would really appreciate some feedback. There is one more hurdle to cross before users can benefit from choosing a category for searching; currently even though there are results from only one category, not all the space is used. This sometimes forces the users to press the forward/back arrows even though there is ample space in to show all the results. There is a bug report opened on this, and I think it also has a few rejected patches. Apparently this is a hard problem to solve given the way the results are now displayed in beagle-search. Anyone willing to learn Gtk should benefit a lot by working on this problem :-D. Thanks in advance for your time and feedback, - dBera -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user
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