Re: RFC: On-line Content Filtering of directories

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:04 +0200, Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, April 27, 2005 1:33 pm, Alexander Larsson said:
> > * Sometimes you might not see the whole window, or just not look at the
> > bottom. Maybe we could figure out some other (additional) way to say
> > that this is a filtered view that is visible in the whole window, or at
> > least in more places. Maybe we can use colors? background color? some
> > sort of border around the view? different window title?
> > * The status bar should perhaps say something like "3 items (of 28)" to
> > make it obvious the count is of the filtered items
> >
>  To avoid this issues, and as someone already commented, what about if we
> instead of disappear unmatched files, we do bring to first positions the
> matched files, and select them in order to have a visually contrast with
> the rest of files, then there's no a special *filtering mode* that we
> have to explain and notice to the user... we only have automate the user
> manual task of "move somefiles together and select them".
> 
> So, instead of a "filter this files" this would be a "put this files
> together where I can see them", and this way avoids some complexity issues
> of filtering, like the following you suggested:

Yes, this is another possibility, which doesn't impact how the selection
works. It does somewhat interact with the current ordering features
though. To do it well you'd have to introduce a much more separating
level of ordering, like the old ETable grouping function. This might
work, but will be some work to implement (it might be hard to do with
GtkTreeView for instance). 

Also, I wonder how it will look when its dynamically updating while
typing. A lot of things will zoom around...

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