GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317540
Highlight search results
Last modified: 2006-06-07 20:09:08 UTC
Often when friends and family sit down to use Rythmbox to play a specific song, they use the search box to find the song, play it and goes of to find more songs using the browser. The search is however still in progress and limiting results. I have watched over and over how users do not understand this and wonder why no (or very few) songs show up when they click on an album or artist in the browser. It would be good if the fact that a search is in progress was more visible in the UI. I have made a small suggestion of using the first line in the song window show the search keyword or the fact that no songs matched. (See attached mock up.) (This issue was discussed on the mailing list some time ago).
Created attachment 52819 [details] Mockup of search highlight. Mockup of search highlight.
It looks great! I too have had friends lost at my computer because of this problem Perhaps it should also show that you are browsing "Artist this or that" or "Album this or that" when you are doing that, cause that is also a cause of confusion. Take a look at bug 131544 too.
IMHO the best solution to the current search-problems is to fix http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98725 and add a clear-search-button. I was going to file a wishlist on this, but found that very old bug. I think a lot of the search-related issues/open bugs will be improved/fixed by just limiting the fields in the browser to only show genre/artist/album with relevant search-hits. (ps: IIRC this is how iTunes solves searching as well)
Heikki: yes, but as I see it, that would mean that all traces of the rest of the music collection mysteriously disappear. Imagine the look of that friend that "accidentally deleted almost all of his linux pal's music collection". I don't see why Sven's mockup wouldn't improve the user experience. This bug, and the two you mention don't seem mutually exclusive to me.
(In reply to comment #3) > IMHO the best solution to the current search-problems is to fix > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98725 and add a clear-search-button. Actually the relevant bug on this is bug #322787 (the bug you mentioned was actually not really what you wanted and has been closed as WONTFIX). I'm working on it. > I was going to file a wishlist on this, but found that very old bug. I think a > lot of the search-related issues/open bugs will be improved/fixed by just > limiting the fields in the browser to only show genre/artist/album with relevant > search-hits. > (ps: IIRC this is how iTunes solves searching as well) Yes, that is how iTunes does it.
This is a duplicate of #322787 or at any rate solved by it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 322787 ***