Search Indicators in Dolphin

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi Vishesh,

sorry for the late response - sometimes it's hard to find the time for
useful replies when my work (unrelated to KDE) and the endless stream
of bug reports and new e-mails keeps me busy :-(

2013/6/3 Vishesh Handa:
> Btw, on a slightly unrelated note, we need to give the user some kind of
> feedback when they are using the filenamesearch kioslave or the Nepomuk
> kioslave.

Do you have a good idea what such a kind of visual feedback could look like?

About the original question concerning what we tell the user when
searching before the indexing is finished: I think we could break this
into two parts:

(a) What should it look like, and how should it behave?

If I understand you correctly, you suggest to go ahead with the
Nepomuk-search and show a KMessageWidget-like notification that tells
the user that indexing is not finished yet, that the results might be
incomplete, and when the indexing is expected to finish, right? That
sounds reasonable to me, but note that I'm neither a usability nor a
GUI expert ;-)

(b) How would it be implemented?

One option might be that we check (maybe in
DolphinViewContainer::slotDirectoryLoadingStarted() ?) if Nepomuk is
going to be used for the search, and ask Nepomuk somehow if a message
as described in (a) should be shown, and if that is the case, just
show it in the message widget. But maybe there are other options - I'm
not extremely familiar with the search-related code, so I might not
see the best solution.

Best regards,
Frank