[Nepomuk] Re: dolphin faceted search under Kubuntu/KDE 4.6 RC2

[Peter Penz]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011 23:38:36 Darren Cruse wrote:
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> One small point of feedback:  Have you noticed that if you're browsing
> a high level folder, click one of those checkboxes, are automatically
> switched to "find mode" (if that's the right name for it), with the
> results appropriately limited, and then you *uncheck* the thing you'd
> checked such that no filter checkbox is checked, it wants to start
> searching and displaying literally every file beneath the folder you
> were on.  Not sure what the alternative UI flow would/should be, but
> it's definitely surprising the first time you do that...  you start
> seeing a huge number of thumbnails populating (I almost feel the
> better behaviour would be not to search in that scenario i.e. where
> nothings in the search box and nothing's checked).

I agree that having no search-results after unchecking the boxes again would be preferable. I'll try to fix this as a bugfix for 4.6.x...

For 4.7 Sebastian already worked on a patch that tries to be more context-sensitive which hopefully will fix minor UI-issues like this.

Cheers,
Peter

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