Search Indicators in Dolphin

[Vishesh Handa]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Rigo Wenning <rigo at w3.org> wrote:

> Vishesh,
>
> again thanks for all your work on this. A special application looks
> fine. It could be linked as a button from konqueror and dolphin. I would
> encourage you to look at the query language that recoll is using,
> especially to allow for tag search and proximity search and graph
> search.
>
> The compromise being that the "average" user will just type stuff into a
> text field (like google) and expect magic. While more search-aware users
> can augment precision by using a more advanced search syntax in the same
> field. I offer to help writing up a help file for this language. But I
> can't help creating it as I'm not a programer
>

I'll take a look.

I actually have a gsoc student working on a better query parser to expose
many of these more advanced features, but in a more simple user friendly
way.


>
>  --Rigo
>
> On Monday 10 June 2013 15:49:17 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Rigo Wenning <rigo at w3.org> wrote:
> > > While both of you are at search, is there an advanced search
> > > interface planned? Nepomuk has very precious information (date
> > > ranges, types etc) For the moment, there is no obvious way to
> > > search with those. Look at the advanced search interface of recoll.
> > > This works pretty well...
> > From my side - Nope.
> >
> > I am planning a specialized searching application because I feel that
> > both krunner and Dolphin are not good representations of search
> > results. But that search interface will focus less of specialized
> > queries and more on a good user interface and "average" queries.
> >
> > By "average" I mean what most users would use.
> >
> > >  --Rigo
> > >
> > > On Thursday 06 June 2013 20:25:00 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > > > > Right, I see what you mean. Showing the directory where it's
> > > > > currently searching in the status bar might be an option, but
> > > > > I'm
> > > > > not sure if there is a clean way to have a kioslave send that
> > > > > kind
> > > > > of information to Dolphin.
> > > >
> > > > Right. Even I'm not sure how this would be done.
> > > >
> > > > I'll investigate.
>



-- 
Vishesh Handa
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