GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 551794
Find as you type should search collapsed groups (and possibly unshown offline buddies)
Last modified: 2010-06-22 11:16:11 UTC
My buddy list is sorted into a few small groups of people I regularly talk to, which I have expanded all the time, and other large groups of people I rarely talk to, which I generally contract. The standard GtkTreeView find-as-you-type thing only searches expanded rows of the view, so I can't just type someone's name and hit enter to IM them if they are in a collapsed group. Similarly, if I want to send a message to someone who's offline, I have to show offline buddies, and then still figure out which collapsed group they're in. It'd be nice if the find-as-you-type preferred online buddies who are in expanded groups, falling back to unexpanded and offline buddies in some order. (This would be less of an issue if Chat→New Conversation… completed names of buddies on any account as you type.)
I totally agree.
autocompletion is popping up all over the place in UI related discussions. we can probably all agree that it will find it's way as a solution pattern for numerous UI problems in version 3 of the HIG book. see http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG/ThreeZero i would personally want to see that happen, before all of my hair turns grey ;)
the new live search which got merged recently searchs through collapsed groups as well. see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608166 for more information. searching through offline contacts automatically is not yet merged, because it needs some refactoring in empathyContactListStore, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621090 for that
let's make this dup of bug #621090 then. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 621090 ***