another suggestion for query UI
- From: Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>
- To: F-Spot list <f-spot-list gnome org>
- Subject: another suggestion for query UI
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:03:41 -0400
Let me start off by saying I don't like Lotus Notes much - we use it at
work for email and bug tracking and other tasks, and it's kinda
annoying. However, I think we might be able to take some inspiration
from it's search mechanism.
The simple search panel is a single text widget - you can enter a simple
string like "Fred", and it shows all items matching 'Fred' in any field
(tag, comment, etc.) You can also enter more complicated search queries
using a simple language - basically components like "<data field>
<criteria> <value>" joined together with AND, OR, NOT, ( and ).
If you then open the advanced window, you can get a dialog that lets you
edit each component individually, and save and load searches, etc.
I've attached a snapshot showing roughly how this might look for us.
I think I'd like some variant of this better than my previous suggestion
- it gives a little more flexibility. We could also incorporate DnD -
dragging a tag to the text window could automatically add "tag contains
<tag name>" to the query (with an AND or an OR depending on what we decide.)
It also means that there's no difference between the richness of the
queries specified through the advanced panel and the text widget.
I guess you could combine the two proposals as well - if the text widget
uses language like this, you could still display it one component per
row in the advanced panel, like iPhoto does...
Any comments?
Warren
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