Improved character selector

[Loïc Corbasson]

2007/3/27, Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net>:
> Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > I'd say that 90% of the users go into the Charselector to search for a glyph
> > that is not accessible via the keyboard and have it copied into the clipboard
> > (or similar) via pressing a button.
> >
> > So having a "search" line edit at the top doesn't really make sense unless you
> > plan to look-up details via a keystroke which will likely be the minority of
> > users. I also think that the details tab on the right covers way too many
> > details presented by default.
>
> I think there is some confusion here. You seem to be expecting that you
> would find the glyph (e.g.) '<' by typing '<' into the search l.e.,
> whereas I *think* the search l.e. is actually for searching by
> /description/, i.e. you would search for "less than" to find '<', which
> seems sensible.
>
An even better option would be full-text search, so typing '<', 'less
than', or 'math' would return a set of results including the '<' glyph, IMHO.

Loïc