Re: Query patch

[Kevin Sheehan <kevin sheehan zoom co uk>]

First I would like to say the searching is excellent and I am very
pleased to see it included. 

The only comment I have is should the ctrl-f shortcut close the bar if
pressed a second time?

Thanks
 Kevin

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 20:50 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> Howdy list!
> 
> Gabriel's gui query editor received a positive feedback from the crowd
> at the summit. Although quite rightly the text query got a much bigger
> applause :) 
> 
> Gabriel spent some time trying to implement a few additions we discussed
> to make it more discoverable how to edit the query. 
> 
> Mockup:
> 
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/boston2006/fspot-query.png
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/boston2006/fspot-textquery.png
> 
> Rationale:
> 
> Drag and Drop
> ------------------------
> Shift is usually used as a modifier key to negate or toggle the action
> performed, so it would be reasonable to have a dragged tag be added to
> the query as AND and the shift key to toggle to OR.
> 
> Discoverability
> -----------------------
> Once the tags are in place, make the and/or easily editable with a
> simple dropdown. The additional functionality of supplying NOT for a tag
> or removing it from the query could also do with some indication on the
> interface. 
> 
> Additionally it should be communicated better that the thumbnail view
> only lists photos filtered out. Nautilus uses quite nice color coding
> for special locations like search and burn://
> 
> It may be nice to be able to have the text and the gui search translate
> to each other. I'm not sure putting a toggle button onto the search
> stripe would be a good idea. Just two entries in the menu and two
> shortcuts would do I think. 
> 
> cheers
>