GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 301201
more search types in procedure browser
Last modified: 2005-10-19 20:15:18 UTC
as mentioned in bug 156340 it would be useful to have more search types in both the Plugin Details and PDB Browser. Essentially I'd like to be able to search by Name, Summary (aka blurb, see bug 301197) or Description. Ideally though I'd like to be able to search against any/all of the available fields but providing that much extra functionality would require some reorganisation of the user interface (maybe a search toolbar at the top of the window with a dropdown for the search type, a text entry for the search terms, and Search button?).
You can already search by Name and Description. Can you outline what else you would possibly want to search for?
IMO it is part of the problem that Alan mixes two different browsers in this report, which have different search abilities. Alan, please add short lists (and I mean short, verbose != comprehensible :) of the search capabilities you want to have.
Setting to NEEDINFO until Alan has provided the information he's been asked for.
I'd like to be able to search be more types than you can currently search by. You can currently search by Name and (short) Description. It would be useful to be able to search by Help (long description) and all the other fields (like author for example).
This is trivial to add after the latest changes to the browsers.
Fixed for the procedure browser: 2005-05-19 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> * plug-ins/dbbrowser/Makefile.am * plug-ins/dbbrowser/gimpprocbox.[ch]: removed. * plug-ins/dbbrowser/gimpbrowser.[ch]: new widget derived from GtkHPaned. Contains lots of common code from the procedure and plug-in browsers. * plug-ins/dbbrowser/gimpprocbrowser.c * plug-ins/dbbrowser/plugin-browser.c: use a GimpBrowser, lots of cleanups. * plug-ins/dbbrowser/gimpprocbrowser.c: support all possible search types. Addresses bug #301201.
If we really wanted to add more search types to the plug-in browser, we would first have to add a PDB API to query for plug-ins by anything else but the name. I don't think this is worth the effort. The plug-in browser should better be rewritten to become a menu browser and probably needs to be implemented in the core then. Let's close this report as FIXED.