Re: [Tracker] A couple of issues in tracker-search-tool

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le samedi 16 dÃcembre 2006 Ã 20:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a Ãcrit :
> On 12/16/06, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> wrote:
> > 1. Search button should be grayed out when search entry is empty.
> >
> >         To reproduce: open Tracker Search Tool, the search entry is
> >         empty, but you can click on Search button.
>
> this is ok
>
> >         More info: I suppose the search button should also be grayed out
> >         after a search is performed, and clickable only when there is
> >         something new to search in text entry.
>
> Often, while Tracker is still indexing, you'd like to continue
> searching with the same terms again just by clicking the search button
> (which is not grayed out). This feature you suggest will end up as a
> frustration in such a case.
>
> > 2. Clear the results list on text entry cleaning
> >
> >         To reproduce: open Tracker Search Tool, enter text in search
> >         entry, search and find it, now clic the clear entry icon. The
> >         results list still show previous results.
> >
> >         More info: waiting for a search-as-you-type feature, should we
> >         clear the results list after every text entry changes
>
> I hope the search-as-you-type feature is not implemented in t-s-t,
> especially considering that loads of people type at different speeds,
> and also because hitting enter shouldn't be much trouble after typing
> the entry. Such a feature is unneeded elegance...

This feature is already used in Spotlight and in the search tool in
Vista. It makes the user thinking that the search system is going fast
and it also show him whether he has to more detail its query or not.
Furthermore user has a kind of interactivity.
I agree that such a feature will hit slow computers (and I have such one
so I understand what it is...) but it is also something that many users
would like to have and something that some people could argue on to say
that tracker is not fast (yes it's wrong...).

So I would like to see an option in a preference menu to
activate/desactivate the search-as-you-type feature. If the feature is
enable then the Search button is suppressed.


Laurent.

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