KListViewSearchLine

Benoit Walter b.walter at free.fr
Sat Feb 28 14:48:35 GMT 2004


This search method (as-you-type) is a really nice thing, very intuitive. I 
have used it for my new kcontrol propotype and I am sure it could be more 
widely used in KDE, for example as a filename-filter in konqueror.


On Saturday 28 February 2004 15:37, Till Adam wrote:
> 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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