| Summary: | That "content" searches for metadata is confusing | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Kai Uwe Broulik <kde> |
| Component: | search | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 2.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
I'd prefer going the other direction and offering no initial option instead of adding a third one ;-) There is no less technical term for "metadata", you're background knowledge is way too good and probably you'd be fine with a third button, but I doubt it would improve the situation for most of the other users out here. I guess fixing your problem requires having a different search interface and moving the "file/content" box into the panel only in case if the search result has found both of them (-> no initial option at all). Different to explain here... I have some ideas for the search interface - beside some implementation issues I'm still not happy with the user interface, but this is something for 4.10... :-( Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719 From a user perspective, metadata is basically content, so I think the status quo makes enough sense. I think my above comment stands. :) We haven't had any other people complain about this so I think in practice it isn't really very confusing for our users. |
You’ve probably read or are going to read my post about that on G+ ;) so here’s the feature request for this: Dolphin’s search offers to search for file name only (which is the default) and by "content". This content however also includes metadata, which is confusing. One would expect "Content" only searches for actual file contents, such as words in a document. There should be a third option "Metadata" (a less technical term needed, though) that explictly lets you find files by their tags and comment etc. I initially suggested having an additional "All" button that searches through all the three sources (file name, metadata, content) but it is probably better to have the buttons be checkable individually, so you can more accurate define what to search for. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Hit Ctrl+F Actual Results: You can determin whether you want to search for file name or for file content+metadata ("Content") Expected Results: There are three buttons: File name, Metadata, Content which can be checked individually.