beagle-search TO-DO
"D Bera" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.dashboard.devel |
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Hey folks, Here are some ideas to make beagle-search shine better in 2008. Take your pick. * Show a drop-down hardcoded list of search categories. While testing I noticed there are now too many search sources managed by beagle and searching for something is returning different kinds of data - from documents, emails, manpages, documentations, applications, browsing history, IM, ... <more> Its justs feels so cluttered. More often than not I seem to know what kind of data I am looking for. Searching for something and then selecting the display category seems a round about way - I think there should be a direct way to say "search beagle settings in IM". A drop-down is one way of doing that. * Show the current indexing status in the tooltip of the tray-icon. Or/And in beagle-search as well. When beagled is indexing, indicate it by flashing/visually-modifying the tray-icon. BeagleClient API is for both is long there - integration left to be done. * Display the number of items in the index in a beagle-search, maybe as a Page linked from Help->"Beagle Index" (the welcome page, result pages, error page are all different kinds of Page). API support is long present. * Provide a "Remove"/[X] butting (maybe on hover) for each result which will remove the item from the index. API support is long present. See the MasterDelete.cs source for 10 line implementation. * Show results from Empathy backend. * An advanced search Page presenting user a hardcoded list of properties, like author, title, email sender, music genre etc. and users can search for something in the properties. * Allowing users to select date range for searching. Are the standard Gtk calendar controls that can be used ? * General polish to dynamically add/remove results as the search window is resized. Currently if the size increases, the result tiles are padded with whitespace making the display look very sparse. - dBera -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user