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Ummm?

rather strangely I can see both sides of this argument and very clearly! 

I'm a complete Linux 'newbie' so like the idea of a nice 'windozy' search 
GUI......but! I have been trying desperately to get my head round Linux 
commands and regular expressions etc and (hopefully) beginning to find my way 
around - and very surprised at the power/adapatbility of things like regular 
expressions and would like to use it more! (sad but true!) but I can see 
where Michel is coming from with the "oh - everyone knows that..." scenario.

One solution would be that of a Windows text editor program called TextPad 
which has a search GUI with a radio button that switches on/off regular 
expression searching (it's off by default and you just type your search 
expression or regular expression in the same search text box!) - that way 
everyone would be happy?

...just a thought!
DIL23
:)


On Saturday 05 January 2008 09:32:21 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2008/1/5, Michel Pottier <Michel.Pottier at free.fr>:
> > Hello all
> > Excuse me for my bad english.
> >
> > Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> > > Dnia Friday 04 of January 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > >> 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 !
> >
> > I agree with this point of view.
> >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > I think it will be very harmful for digikam to have a hidden
> > functionality. The first step  says "expert users know that they can do
> > that ..." The next step will be  "Ho everybody knows that by using
> > regular expressions he can do that .. this is implemented". At the final
> > step Digikam will be used by a small community of experts because the
> > functionality will be not implemented in a comprehensive form for
> > non-expert users! Very harmful!
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Why do you explain this syntax? It was not clear for everybody? (In fact
> > not for me :-[ ).
>
> Totally agree. It the same for me Mik, This syntax is non user friendly and
> i don't (won't) understand it...
>
> Gilles