Re: [Evolution-hackers] Category Searching

[Tim Lee <tim ximian com>]

Hi,

Would the search work for partial strings? For example would searching
for "Hol" return Holiday and Holiday Cards or would it return find
nothing? Also would searches be case sensitive? The current category
list appears to be case sensitive, but that might not be what people
expect for searches.

-- Tim
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 04:38, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 20:43 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > Right now we provide searching for categories in both the calendar and
> > the addressbook.  The addressbook just list all the categories from the
> > category list, while the calendar (and tasks) makes backends track the
> > categories and only makes those categories in use available via the
> > search bar.
> > 
> > We need to make this consistent between the various components, the
> > question is how.  There are several options:
> > 
> > 1. Make the address book backends track categories like calendar.
> > 
> > This is a problem for LDAP because it needs to load every single entry
> > in order to know all the categories.  Networked calendar backends will
> > have this problem moving forward as well.
> > 
> > 2. Make the calendar/tasks searching just pull from the category list.
> > 
> > This needs a way to organize all the categories, we just can't list 50
> > categories.
> > 
> right, if you've got many calendars, specially 3rd party ones that use
> their own categories names, you'll end up missing some categories if we
> just use a hard-coded list. So I guess it is still worthy to query the
> backend for the list of categories in use, to avoid missing categories,
> or...
> 
> > 3. Make category searching use a user entered string to search with
> > (just like name or summary).
> > 
> do this one.
> 
> cheers
> 
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