[Qgis-developer] Usability of searches

[HAUBOURG]

Hi Yes, 
Wonderful! I had only tested in first versions, this is so good now! 
Maybe we should just improve fuzzy search / full text search capabilities, (it doesn't bear typos in my tests).. 
Very nice work
Régis
 

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Yves Jacolin [mailto:yjacolin at free.fr]
> Envoyé : vendredi 11 mars 2016 08:58
> À : qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc : HAUBOURG
> Objet : Re: [Qgis-developer] Usability of searches
> 
> 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.