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

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On 12/17/06, Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk> wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2006, at 19:14, Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
>
> > Le samedi 16 décembre 2006 à 20:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a
> > écrit :
> >> 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...).
>
> Part of the advantage in search-as-you-type is that sometimes you
> don't need to type the whole thing... the computer finds it faster
> than you can finish typing it.  Particularly with "unusual" words
> (e.g. I use Spotlight to launch xmgrace, by the time I've finished
> typing 'xmg'  the top-hit is xmgrace... I just press down arrow and
> enter to run it).

Now that's useful, only that the feature you mention, a listing of
potential search terms, hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet,