Introducing Homerun

[Oliver Henshaw]

On 13 November 2012 15:56, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 November 2012 15:56:11 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 13:13:36 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 November 2012 11:21:34 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > > agree on above points, i'm not sure how much mainstream krunner can
> be
> > > > made
> > > > (and yes, it has to be way more visible),
> > > > even if the text field would be always visible or anyways easily
> > > > reachable
> > > > unfortunately a big part of public still needs to browse, don't know
> > > > exactly the psychological reason, but that's what i seen over and
> over
> > > > again.
> > >
> > > People are used to Google and googling everything though but that's
> > > something you do when you want to explore or to get NEW information,
> not
> >
> > unfortunately, that is not true. that is just "geek wisdom" that is
> > patently, utterly false.
> >
> > it is a surprise to just about every. single. person. that i demonstrate
> how
> > you can "search for anything" on your computer. only mac users are
> familiar
> > with the idea, and then only for user files and a few other select items
> > via spotlight (and even then, many mac users are surprised this feature
> > exists on the OS they use!)
> >
> > even plainly visible search fields outside of file managers (e.g. in
> system
> > settings) are often passed by when people look for things.
> >
> > so , no ... people are not used to searching everything. this may be
> > generational, however, and "digital natives" may be more used to this.
> I haven't said nothing that contradicts what you said on which I fully
> agree
> (I have mentioned in the past the exact case of osx users don't knowing
> spotlight).
>
> I introduced the Google example because in the Web realm, even the not
> digital
> native search for everything and everywhere and those same people use
> bookmarks or other similar mechanism for their favorites.
>
> There is an obvious reason why people had to get used to search in the web
> and
> it is its size. People are getting more and more data on their local
> devices
> so they will have to get use to search as well.
>

This discussion reminded me of
https://blog.mozilla.org/faaborg/2009/10/13/browsing-your-personal-web/which
is about search & browse interfaces. Hope it's food for thought for
anyone who hasn't seen it before - it certainly struck a chord with me
first time I read it.
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