GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 549954
Need a search box in process list
Last modified: 2010-10-14 02:49:25 UTC
When launching System Monitor to find a process in process list, you usually get a lot of process in the list and it's not easy to find the one you search, therefore you 1st try to arrange the list by name then you try to find the process you're looking for. Maybe it coul be smarter if there was a search box that would allow the user to get its process by typing a few letters See for an exemple the ctrl-tab extension for Firefox 3.0 that could be implemented by default in Firefox 3.1. I've attached 2 screenshots : a quick mockup of system monitor showing process list with a search box (just to "feel" the functionality) and a capture of crt-tab extension for Firefox 3.0
Created attachment 117645 [details] ctrl-tab for Firefox as an exemple
Created attachment 117646 [details] System monitor with search box mockup
Looks like a feature for the treeview widget instead.
How is this search feature actually supposed to work? 1) When typing, does it select a match in the list? 2) Or, does it filter out all non-matching entries when typing in the search box? If it is 1), the built-in search capability of GtkTreeView can be used (see gtk_tree_view_set_search_entry()). In case of 2), this is not a enhancement request for GtkTreeView, rather something applications are supposed to implement themselves (for example by using GtkTreeModelFilter).
I've notice that Synaptic on Ubuntu 8.10 now has a "quick search" box I don't know if that can be useful
i'm trying the 2.25.91 version and i don't see that feature yet maybe for 2.28 ?
I don't know if it can help, but the "Open with" application (Nautilus) has a nice search feature : the search field appears when you start typing and select the correspondant entry
In response to c4 by Kristian Rietveld : i think i missed the point. What i was asking for is filtering which seems to be Bug 509787. Thanks
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 509787 ***