On 10/5/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/10/4, Fabrice Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > We may not be talking about the same thing. I agree that stemming > > is for the back-end engine to handle, and not Deskbar. > > I'm quite sure that we are talking about the same thing. Stemming was > only an example of a related technology that we had to remove. > Right... Hopefully this will not be removed once implemented ;-)
> > 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. > > I can think of many ways to add such functionality to deskbar. The > biggest problem is presenting it in a non-obtrusive and sensitive way > to the user. Deskbar has a very compact UI - and some users are > requesting the previous, even more compact UI, back. It is hard cramming > more info in there, but if there are good ideas, I'm all ears. > I am no UI expert, so bear with me :-) How about showing alternative spelling suggestions on top of the results list ? It would look like Search: X Spelling suggestions "Did you mean Y ?" Web Search Search Amazon.com for X ... Clicking on "Did you mean Y ?" would then set the text entry field to Y and run the search as if it had been entered by the user. Search term suggestions could also be shown in the same list while the user types : Search: comp Search suggestions compulink compulsory computador computer computing ... I don't know if this is compatible with the ideas you guys have for Deskbar. I am not up to date on new developments, I still use 2.19.3 here. Fabrice _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
