Bug 487270 - Add a keyboard shortcut for searching a room's history
Summary: Add a keyboard shortcut for searching a room's history
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: NeoChat
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 24.02.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tobias Fella
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Reported: 2024-05-20 07:41 UTC by Poscat
Modified: 2024-11-17 22:24 UTC (History)
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Description Poscat 2024-05-20 07:41:16 UTC
Currently the Ctrl+F shortcut is used for searching for rooms joined, not for searching a room's history and I'm not aware other shortcuts for searching history.

It would be nice to have such a shortcut because the search button is currently not very discoverable (IMO). Preferably Ctrl+F, and use another shortcut for searching for rooms.
Comment 1 Joshua Goins 2024-11-09 22:22:36 UTC
I would add this, but I'm honestly scratching my head on what we could use. CTRL+F is for the room switcher, CTRL+SHIFT+F is for searching members.... CTRL+ALT+F? Or maybe make CTRL+SHIFT+F make it search for messages, I do that way more often than looking for a specific user.
Comment 2 Thiago Sueto 2024-11-17 22:24:04 UTC
I'd argue the most important action would be searching through room history, and thus should be the one with Ctrl+F assigned.

Other chat applications don't care at all about keyboard shortcuts for searching rooms or members: Nheko, Discord and Telegram only have room history search shortcuts (Telegram optionally lets you search through the history of all your rooms as well).

I could see Ctrl+Shift+F for searching rooms since the user may be in more than 20 groups, though the point is weakened by the fact rooms can be organized into spaces and Neochat separates them neatly.

But I don't really see a use case for searching members that is done often enough to warrant a shortcut.