On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:05 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: > I've started to put up some mockups and ideas at this page > http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Sidebar/Search Just wanted to follow up here and summarize some discussion of why we might want to do a "bigboard search" rather than our current approach of using an embedded deskbar-applet: Advantages of deskbar-applet: - Standard GNOME component ... we can help build the ecosystem - A lot of different modules exist - Consistent for the user if they also use Alt-F3 to get the popup window. Advantages of rolling our own: - Can tie closely into the bigboard, instead of needing separate configuration; that is, if you have People/Files/Calendar on the bigboard, a search entry on the bigboard that searches exactly People/Files/Calender is a very natural thing. - Can do a display of results that is consistent with the bigboard. - Works better on systems with the old deskbar applet (less of a concern, but we are still trying to support Fedora 7 at the moment), though I think we'll give up on that at some point.) - Doesn't duplicate the Alt-F3 experience in a similar-but-somewhat-different way. In essence, the idea is not to do another global search, but to have a the entry on the bigboard be keyboard access just to the bigboard - Owen
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