Bug 161438

Summary: Search in Basket: global and single-basket searches.
Product: [Applications] basket Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: Sebastien <slaout>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
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Description Dotan Cohen 2008-04-30 03:03:03 UTC 
Version:           1.0.2 (using KDE 3.5.9)
OS:                Linux

Basket currently has no Search feature. There is a Filter feature which locates baskets that contain a term, but there is no way to find that term in the matching baskets.

An ideal global search feature would place the cursor at the text location of the first match, and then move to the next match when the user hits F3, even across baskets. In addition to the global search, a single-basket search could be incorporated, which only looks in the current basket. I would suggest that the global search use a popup dialog for it's UI, and that the single-basket search use a firefox-style inline search field.

Note that Bug 160114 also requests a search feature, but as that is not the main content of Bug 160114 I filed this new bug.
Comment 1 Dom 2008-05-18 20:16:47 UTC 
Dotan Cohen said:
> Basket currently has no Search feature. There is a Filter feature which
> locates baskets that contain a term, but there is no way to find that term
> in the matching baskets. 

I don't understand...

Doesn't the filter feature *filter* the basket content when you click on it? That's how it operates for me.

1. I enter search term in Filter bar
2. I click the Search button at the far right of the Filter bar
3. BasKet searches all the baskets and shows me which are the ones that contain my search term by putting a blue cube next to the title of the basket containing the number of search terms found in that basket
4. When I click on the title of any of the baskets where the search term was found all I see is filtered content of that basket.

Doesn't the Filter feature function like that for you? If not, then you should probably file it as a separate bug.

As to your suggestion for ideal global search feature, that's another thing. (I'm quite happy with the way search is handled now, but that's just me.)
Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2008-05-18 22:33:42 UTC 
The filter works for locating notes that have the selected term, but not the term itself in the note. For instance, I have a note that has 700 words, and I need to find an instance of a particular note. The filter does not help. I still need to read 700 words to find the word.

In other words, the filter finds baskets containing the search term. A search feature would bring the cursor to the location of the search term, as is the case in other KDE applications such as Kate.
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 01:02:55 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.