Re: Removal of type-ahead find

[meg ford <megford gnome org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ben Gamari <bgamari foss gmail com> wrote:

To be clear, for my use-case it is important to understand that files
not matching my criteria should not be hidden from view (as is usual
in search). I simply want a want to efficiently move around the view,
all files included. For instance, if I want to take a look at my 100nM
dataset, I want to be able to quickly move to "100nM.dat" and still
easily see the neighboring "150nM.dat", "200nM.dat", and "250nM.dat"
files.

This is why I say that my "browsing" usecase differs substantially from
"search". While in "search" the user wants to isolate a group of files, in
"browsing" you simply seek to locate a group of files in a region of the
filename space.

At the UX Hackfest we were discussing this type of usecase in relation to the file chooser [1]. Having filters in the file chooser may not satisfy your use case, but I wanted to let you know that such uses are being discussed. There was also a lengthy discussion about improving search, as Jon mentioned in his blog post [2]. I think that you will see improvements in this area in the near future.

Thanks for your feedback and engagement,

Meg Ford
[1] https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/blob/master/file%20chooser/ux-hackfest1-noheader.svg
[2] http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/

Cheers,

- Ben

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