[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Proposed attribute table UI redesign

[Martin Dobias]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>>
>> nice stuff. One more thing I have been thinking about is that we could
>> do the search in a way the browsers nowadays do it: keep the widgets
>> for search hidden by default, saving further vertical space. The
>> search bar would be opened only after clicking a search button or
>> pressing the usual ctrl+F or "/" shortcut.
>>
>
> Martin what is the possibility of making the search tool work across
> all columns efficiently? I know from training courses I give that
> selecting the appropriate column when making a search is a common
> stumbling block for many users.

Right, by default we should search in all columns - I also find it
tedious to always select the right column. To make it efficient we
should probably just skip the search using the expressions and
directly search for specified string within attributes of features.

Regards
Martin