[Qgis-developer] Usability of searches

HAUBOURG regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr
Fri Mar 11 05:49:54 PST 2016


Ok, looking at the code, it seems to be actually using full text search. 
I will check further why some I had the feeling it was a simple like search.. 
To be continued..
Régis

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Yves Jacolin [mailto:yjacolin at free.fr]
> Envoyé : vendredi 11 mars 2016 10:43
> À : HAUBOURG
> Cc : qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Objet : Re: [Qgis-developer] Usability of searches
> 
> 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.
> 



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