KListViewSearchLine

[Till Adam]

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On Saturday 21 February 2004 17:34, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:14, Don Sanders wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 17:45, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 2:12, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > Actually for KMail KMSearchRuleWidget should be used for this.
> > >
> > > /me winces
> >
> > I'm ok with allowing some experimentation here. At least I'm not
> > convinced that KMSearchRuleWidget is the best option yet, and are
> > willing to consider alternatives.
>
> The KListViewSearchLine will only allow searching for substrings in the
> Subject or the Sender/Recipient name. Already something simple like
> view all important messages or all new messages is impossible. Of
> course, the KListViewSearchLine is better than nothing, but it's far
> from what people know from other mail clients.

Actually, I've just tried it and I l love it. :) I just typed "search" and 
bang, there was the thread I was looking for. You can type "today" and (with 
fancy date) it will show you only todays mail. You can type "2003" and it 
will show you last year's mail. It's really rather handy.

For "real" or more complex searches we have search folders and a quite complex 
search dialog, which is just a keyboard shortcut away. For quick keyword 
searches this thingie is really nice. I think it will take care of much of my 
searching needs.

The only thing missing is the ability to chose mail with a certain status to 
be filtered (not displayed). I think a drop down or menu with a handfull of 
standard items such as "only show unread mail", "only show important mail" 
etc would be the best solution for that particular problem and somewhat 
orthogonal to this text based quick search. For more complex stuff there is 
always the full search dialog.

In short, I would love to see this go in and hereby volunteer to integrate it.

Till

P.S.: cc'ing kmail-devel, we should probably move this there.
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