On 16 Dec 2006, at 19:14, Laurent Aguerreche wrote: > Le samedi 16 décembre 2006 à 20:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a > écrit : >> On 12/16/06, Luca Ferretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 1. Search button should be grayed out when search entry is empty. >>> >>> To reproduce: open Tracker Search Tool, the search entry is >>> empty, but you can click on Search button. >> >> this is ok >> >>> More info: I suppose the search button should also be >>> grayed out >>> after a search is performed, and clickable only when >>> there is >>> something new to search in text entry. >> >> Often, while Tracker is still indexing, you'd like to continue >> searching with the same terms again just by clicking the search >> button >> (which is not grayed out). This feature you suggest will end up as a >> frustration in such a case. >> >>> 2. Clear the results list on text entry cleaning >>> >>> To reproduce: open Tracker Search Tool, enter text in search >>> entry, search and find it, now clic the clear entry icon. >>> The >>> results list still show previous results. >>> >>> More info: waiting for a search-as-you-type feature, >>> should we >>> clear the results list after every text entry changes >> >> I hope the search-as-you-type feature is not implemented in t-s-t, >> especially considering that loads of people type at different speeds, >> and also because hitting enter shouldn't be much trouble after typing >> the entry. Such a feature is unneeded elegance... > > This feature is already used in Spotlight and in the search tool in > Vista. It makes the user thinking that the search system is going fast > and it also show him whether he has to more detail its query or not. > Furthermore user has a kind of interactivity. > I agree that such a feature will hit slow computers (and I have > such one > so I understand what it is...) but it is also something that many > users > would like to have and something that some people could argue on to > say > that tracker is not fast (yes it's wrong...).
Part of the advantage in search-as-you-type is that sometimes you don't need to type the whole thing... the computer finds it faster than you can finish typing it. Particularly with "unusual" words (e.g. I use Spotlight to launch xmgrace, by the time I've finished typing 'xmg' the top-hit is xmgrace... I just press down arrow and enter to run it). _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
