[Digikam-users] (no subject)

[Chris G]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:38:32PM +0100, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> Dnia Friday 04 of January 2008, Gilles Caulier napisa?:
> > no, no ,no...
> >
> > I hate to use regular expression everywhere. It's complex and not user
> > friendly, especially into a gui.
> >
> > Take a look into photo-management application under windows and forget
> > linux command line here. We programming a guin, and we need a simple way
> > to change behaviour of text filter, using by beginners not experts !
> >
> > My prefered solution is to implement a pop-up menu over the line edit
> > widget (like rating filter option available on status bar)
> 
> This functionality would be hidden from common user. Even with GUI they
> would use that really rarely. But for power users it would be nice.
> 
> More user friendly could google-like syntax:
> 
> asdf filetype:jpg -date:2007*
> 
> It should find file with something with 'asdf' string somewhere AND with
> filetype JPG but not done in 2007.
> 
That syntax seems more difficult to understand than RE to me. However
all that proves is that whatever syntax you know is the easiest.


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Chris Green