[Qgis-developer] Usability of searches

[Yves Jacolin]

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:16:06 Régis Haubourg wrote:
> Paolo Cavallini wrote
> 
> > Does anyone have a good example of the UX from other software we could
> > adhere to?
> 
> The best UI for search is the simplest.. Google does that well :). A simple
> text widget, and filtering options in the results (facets / coloring) is
> enough I think. All the intelligence must be in the indexing full text
> search engine IMHO, not in the UI.
>  Why not a bar, just like command line bar of Processing + a shortcut to
> raise it ?
Régis, All,

QuickFinder does it like this. Denis is the main author of this plugin.

It can plug to osm, internal layer and GeoMapfish. You can even add more search 
engine to it.

Y.