[Qgis-developer] Usability of searches

[Yves Jacolin]

R2gis,

I know that Denis is open to PR as we (camptocam) worked on his plugin in the 
past. :)

Y.
On Friday, March 11, 2016 9:36:25 HAUBOURG wrote:
> 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.