Comments on: Seek and Ye Shall Find http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/ Cool links and commentary Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:29:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Ken http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Ken Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-26 Interesting!<p/>One oddity of this is that it displays searches in big-icon-mode, which doesn't make a lot of sense. Big-icon-mode is spatial so you can put things somewhere, and they'll be there later (stability) -- but searches will be adding/removing things automatically. Searches should probably always use a list-view.<p/>And the look of it rubs me the wrong way. Either you can't see what the search is doing, or it eats up most of your window. I wonder if you could formulate a simple 1-line English sentence, with a control to let you edit it ... not sure what the right solution here is. (If Gtk+ had Aqua's drawers, that would be nice. :-)<p/>But then, I realize this is not-quite-alpha code, so a couple rough edges are to be expected. Great work! I look forward to using this someday. Interesting!

One oddity of this is that it displays searches in big-icon-mode, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. Big-icon-mode is spatial so you can put things somewhere, and they’ll be there later (stability) — but searches will be adding/removing things automatically. Searches should probably always use a list-view.

And the look of it rubs me the wrong way. Either you can’t see what the search is doing, or it eats up most of your window. I wonder if you could formulate a simple 1-line English sentence, with a control to let you edit it … not sure what the right solution here is. (If Gtk+ had Aqua’s drawers, that would be nice. :-)

But then, I realize this is not-quite-alpha code, so a couple rough edges are to be expected. Great work! I look forward to using this someday.

]]> By: Wiflye81 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Wiflye81 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-27 Great work, that's something I was waiting for Great work, that’s something I was waiting for

]]> By: Fred http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Fred Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-28 Wow, it looks really nice ! One small thing that disturbs me is the icon of the saved search file, it should really be a folder.<br/>And, does that folder updates it's content when new valid search results exists ? <p/>But this really rocks, i hope it can make it for 2.14 Wow, it looks really nice ! One small thing that disturbs me is the icon of the saved search file, it should really be a folder.
And, does that folder updates it’s content when new valid search results exists ?

But this really rocks, i hope it can make it for 2.14

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Anonymous Coward Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-29 I think the division to a query view (with the plus sign) and to a saved search view (with the Edit button) is a bit artificial. Why not just open the saved searches in the query view? There should also be some immediate way to see any additional limitations that have been placed on the saved search and opening directly into the query view would do that. I think the division to a query view (with the plus sign) and to a saved search view (with the Edit button) is a bit artificial. Why not just open the saved searches in the query view? There should also be some immediate way to see any additional limitations that have been placed on the saved search and opening directly into the query view would do that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-30 This looks great. I hope it will be available for gnome 2.14 This looks great. I hope it will be available for gnome 2.14

]]> By: Darren Brierton http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Darren Brierton Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-31 When you say "add a simple (non-indexing) search backend" do you mean an alternative to beagle? I'm assuming the screenshots above are showing it using the beagle backend. Do you need a non-beagle backend because Red Hat / Fedora can't ship beagle because it's Mono? When you say “add a simple (non-indexing) search backend” do you mean an alternative to beagle? I’m assuming the screenshots above are showing it using the beagle backend. Do you need a non-beagle backend because Red Hat / Fedora can’t ship beagle because it’s Mono?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-32 Wow! I expected something like this to be quite a ways off, but here it is looking pretty complete. Thanks a million! Very nice. Wow! I expected something like this to be quite a ways off, but here it is looking pretty complete. Thanks a million! Very nice.

]]> By: michele http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-33 michele Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-33 Impressive.<br/>Just needs some more love for the UI.<p/>Kudos. Impressive.
Just needs some more love for the UI.

Kudos.

]]> By: Dennis Krul http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Dennis Krul Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-34 Looks promising!<p/>UI-wise it isn't perfect, but that's only natural for an alpha preview :)<p/>Maybe a nice addition to this 'Places -> Search' approach is to have a little search box (a-la firefox) next to the breadcrumb/location bar to search for stuff in the current folder (+subfolders) with a pulldown menu to narrow down the filetype. I don't know OSX that well, but I think it has something like that too.<p/>Keep up the good work!<p/><br/> Looks promising!

UI-wise it isn’t perfect, but that’s only natural for an alpha preview :)

Maybe a nice addition to this ‘Places -> Search’ approach is to have a little search box (a-la firefox) next to the breadcrumb/location bar to search for stuff in the current folder (+subfolders) with a pulldown menu to narrow down the filetype. I don’t know OSX that well, but I think it has something like that too.

Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Aleksander Kamil Modzelewski http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Aleksander Kamil Modzelewski Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2005/12/07/seek-and-ye-shall-find/#comment-35 This is truly great. A little polish and it will surely take over the world ;) This is truly great. A little polish and it will surely take over the world ;)

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