Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tomboy
This is a small, but simple, bit of polish that I'd really like. I was
searching for one of my notes, so I typed some words in it into the
search bar. No results were found, and I was sure I had a note named
like that, leaving me momentarily confused. It took me a bit to realize
that I was searching within a specific notebook, and that tomboy was
confining my search to that notebook in particular.
So, my suggestion is relatively simple - when the user is searching
within a notebook and no results are found, write something like "No
results within this notebook found" in the area where the search results
normally appear.
Since the user's next action there will usually be to search all
notebooks instead, it would also be nice to offer to do this for the
user. So something like "No results within this notebook found. Click
here to search across all notes." Clicking there would then have the
same effect as clicking on All Notes.
Another case to consider is when the user finds a note while searching within a
notebook, but not all of them. Here the system could (in the background) scan
all the notebooks when a notebook-specific search is done, and then if other
matches are found say something like "4 matching notes were found in other
notebooks".
Anyway, even if only part of these suggestions are tried, it would
probably improve the user experience, especially for new users to tomboy
who don't yet know that searches are confined to a particular notebook.
Thank you!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tomboy 0.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomboy
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
** Affects: tomboy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Triaged
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bitesize usability
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Searching within a notebook should inform the user that no results were found
within that notebook
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386893
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