Bug 432323

Summary:	Expand Help Center search options
Product:	[Applications] khelpcenter	Reporter:	witchhunter <witchhunterpro>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Documentation Editorial Team <kde-doc-english>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	luigi.toscano, yurchor
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description witchhunter 2021-01-30 20:49:34 UTC

SUMMARY
KHelpCenter > Search Options tab > Scope - there are only two scopes: Application manuals and Unix manual pages. These scopes do not match those on Contents tab. For a new user it is difficult to comprehend search results on the right side - they are all under only two scopes.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Search for term in Help Center
2. 
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
All results are under two categories.

EXPECTED RESULT
The results should be separated in categories defined in Contents tab.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 20.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2
Help Center version: 5.7.6.20081

Comment 1 Luigi Toscano 2021-01-30 20:54:07 UTC


The supported scopes are a subset of the categories in the content tab. I'm not sure how it could be solved, as search is not (and may not be) supported for all categories.

Comment 2 witchhunter 2021-01-30 21:56:23 UTC

(In reply to Luigi Toscano from comment #1)
> 
> The supported scopes are a subset of the categories in the content tab. I'm
> not sure how it could be solved, as search is not (and may not be) supported
> for all categories.

Hmm.That's unfortunate. As I understand, each item in Search Results has an address. Can that property be used at least for categorizing search results after model on Contents tab? That would be beneficial, even if new scopes cannot be added.

Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2021-01-30 22:02:43 UTC

(In reply to hunter from comment #2)

> Hmm.That's unfortunate. As I understand, each item in Search Results has an
> address. Can that property be used at least for categorizing search results
> after model on Contents tab? That would be beneficial, even if new scopes
> cannot be added.

Can you please expand this a bit? When I search for something, I get the results grouped by the category:

Search Results for '...':

---------------------

Application Manuals
  * result1
  * result2

UNIX manual pages
  * result3
  * result4
  * result5

Comment 4 witchhunter 2021-01-30 22:42:05 UTC

(In reply to Luigi Toscano from comment #3)
> (In reply to hunter from comment #2)
> 
> > Hmm.That's unfortunate. As I understand, each item in Search Results has an
> > address. Can that property be used at least for categorizing search results
> > after model on Contents tab? That would be beneficial, even if new scopes
> > cannot be added.
> 
> Can you please expand this a bit? When I search for something, I get the
> results grouped by the category:
> 
> Search Results for '...':
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> Application Manuals
>   * result1
>   * result2
> 
> UNIX manual pages
>   * result3
>   * result4
>   * result5
UNIX manual pages aside (and scopes aside); all other search results are grouped under Application Manuals. Can they be at least divided under groups named in Contents tab:
Plasma manual
  * result1
  * result2
Application Manuals
  * result1
  * result2
System settings Modules
  * result1
  * result2
....
UNIX manual pages
  * result1
  * result2