2009/9/3 Christian Robottom Reis <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:12:52AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: >> I'll prod again at the idea of filing a bug by typing into the text >> box, having it show just the matching bugs, and then having a new link >> to report a bug - so dupefinding and other kinds of search will be >> more unified. (Think, to use a somewhat weird analogy, of tree > > Hmmm. The performance impact of dupefinding today would cause real > problems if we did things this way, but I can see how it would be neat > to do this -- a big box which says "Describe the problem you're > experiencing" and you'd get searching without a page load! > > OTOH, this only supports the "find a specific bug" use case for bug > searching; the other use case, build a list to look at, still needs > advanced controls and so on. But maybe that's where our interface falls > apart -- we only have one generic mechanism for both use cases.
There are a few separate bits here. * Typeahead find, and/or doing dupefinding on all searches, and I can see how they would have big performance impacts, so let's leave it for now. * Letting people start describing the bug they want to file without loading another page (starting from the bugs home page). I think this is important; it can be done either through a popup to report a bug or by using the text field on this page to file a bug. * Having just one field with two buttons, so you can either search or file a bug using the same control. The current page looks a bit like it would work this way, but it actually does not. I think this would be cool to try. It might be good or it might just be confusing. -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
