-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fabrice Colin schrieb: > On 10/4/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2007/10/4, Fabrice Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Some back-ends are able to suggest terms, or do spelling >>> correction. It would be useful if these capabilities could be >>> exported by Deskbar handlers/modules. >> This is not solvable on a global deskbar level. But can be solved by >> individual modules. >> >> In the days before we joined Gnome we did native stemming, but it >> turned out to be a bottle neck. One of deskbar's prime features are >> the near-instant searches, and that should be kept as a higher goal >> than spelling corrections I think. >> > We may not be talking about the same thing. I agree that stemming > is for the back-end engine to handle, and not Deskbar. > > Imagine for instance you want to search for "mikkel" but misspell > it "mikkal". No results are found, but the engine is able to > suggest alternative query strings, for instance "mikkel", if this > term exists in its documents corpus. A feedback mechanism where > the user is prompted with "Did you mean mikkel ?" would be useful. > Engines that support this do it rather quickly and it doesn't have > a noticeable impact on search speed. > If you know of a module that supports this feature, could you please post a link to it? I'm curious how they do it.
> Similarly, as the user types in the query field, it may be > desirable to suggest terms; for instance, Firefox shows a list > of suggestions pulled from Google and Yahoo when you type in its > search bar. > > Is there a way for Deskbar handles/modules to give this kind of > feedback at the moment ? > I myself can't think of any way that to do this with the current architecture. - -- Greetings, Sebastian Pölsterl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBLIV1ygZeJ3lLIcRAsEGAJoCyV3VF8taQ+y5cGXgvJ2XAVExygCZATqN U1MT/C7uVuVSBLgX8KrYqtU= =UFa9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
