GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 578710
filter as you type search bar
Last modified: 2011-03-22 16:45:50 UTC
For the media library/effects/transitions, a simple "filter-as-you-type" search bar would be very nice. When the user types more than 2 characters, PiTiVi would "filter" the view to show only items that match that. This would allow quickly finding clips by their name. Moreover, gtk 2.16 now has support for icons in gtk entry widgets, so we could have it look like the one on the upper-right corner of http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/figures/rndevelopers.entry-icons.png.fr
In the manual, I described the behavior of such a feature. I need you to reply to this bug report to know 1) whether this feature request is to be accepted or not "in theory" at least 2) if it can make it into the next release.
Won't make it into this release as we're in a feature freeze now.
Implemented in https://github.com/nekohayo/pitivi/commits/media-library-search
Created attachment 177058 [details] demo screencast
It would be great to show the search bar only when the treeview becomes cluttered, so when there is more than, for example, 10 clips in the view.
Except that, realistically, you always have more than 10 clips in a project. And if you don't, then the media library is mostly empty and the 10 pixels eaten by the searchbar are not problematic.
commit f99e8fd0e70e331b069acaedb4180f3c54d8c769 Author: Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo@gmail.com> Date: Sat Dec 25 17:33:44 2010 -0500 Add a search widget to the media library And related commits up to 47c04d7b09178576dbae44c911cbce8fddb610b5