Hi,
one of the things that keeps on annoying me with the current UI is how hard
it is, sometimes,
to locate an item in dropdown, especially when they get long.
The two major pet-peeves of mine are the "new layer/choose store" and
"layer/publishing/default style"
cases, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of entries in there, and
locating things in there when
one just remembers the store name but not the workspace, or just part of
the name, can be rather
time consuming.
So I wanted to do something about it (without getting nuts and trying to
handle the hundreds of
thousands choices cases, that would require a different treatment and more
effort).
Looking around I've found this wicketstuff-select2 component that provides
a autocomplete dropdown
based on https://select2.org/, see
https://select2.org/getting-started/basic-usage for examples.
I wanted something that would be a drop-in replacement for the Wicket
DropDownChoice, so made
a small bridge class, and something that would not look too much out of
place, so worked a bit
on the style too.
I came up with this, here are a couple of videos showing it in action on
the default data directory
(which does not have many items, but hope you get the idea anyways):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u9Zeb1gs0N3ps-H5SgeGDsbsJ-Sf3zFH
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nv458H0PbzVMskzqQxaFmWF0l5GqVVq3
The downside of these new combos is that they do not look like native ones
in Firefox for example:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RCYwfthUb79rhxnRrT0x7AP1hDXeC7i1
Now, we could just replace all dropdowns with autocomplete ones... seems a
bit silly for dropdowns
having 3 items in it, but would at least be consistent style and UI
experience wise.
Here is a pull request so that you can see how it looks code wise, as you
can see most of the time
switching to the autocomplete version of the drop down is a "search and
replace" business:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/2716
So... thoughts?
Cheers
Andrea
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