Re: [Tracker] [PATCH 0/2] Some improvements on t-s-t

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

Thanks for these - I will look at them in the next few days. Im not sure
about second one either - I guess I need to confirm with rest of tracker
team how to handle field specific searches

jamie

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:02 +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I've been working on a couple of improvements for t-s-t.
>
> 1. I've noticed everytime you type a new letter in the entry box, a new search is performed in tracker. I 
> think this is not very efficient, as user may want to look for a longer word, and intermediate searches are 
> not useful at all. So this first patch only performs a search if 500ms passes by without typing any text.
>
> 2. The second patch allows to restrict searching to a specific path. This is done using special key 'path:' 
> in the entry search. As example, entering 'offspring path:/home/user/MyMusic' will perform a search within 
> /home/user/MyMusic. As it can be seen, this approach could be extendend in future with new keys and 
> combinations.
>
> While the first are quite interesting, not sure for the second one. I mean, I think it's useful, but I'm 
> not sure if the choosen approach is the best one. The good part is that it can be extended to other keys, 
> besides path.
>
>       J.A.
>
> --- 
>
> Juan A. Suarez Romero (2):
>   tracker-search-tool: delay 500ms before querying tracker
>   tracker-search-tool: allow restrict search to a path
>
>  src/tracker-search-tool/tracker-entry.gs |   24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>  src/tracker-search-tool/tracker-query.gs |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  src/tracker-search-tool/tracker-utils.gs |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
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