2007/1/28, Patryk Zawadzki <<a href="mailto:patrys@pld-linux.org">patrys@pld-linux.org</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dnia 28-01-2007, nie o godzinie 22:37 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen napisał(a): > Hi All, > > I put together a first take on formalizing an end user search > language. > > <a href="http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/WasabiUserSearchLanguage"> http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/WasabiUserSearchLanguage</a> > > Let me emphasize that I write "search language" and not "query > language". This is designed for the average user that find the Google > search language more than enough. It has powerful features but I try > to keep it as simple as possible - both because i claim that users > dont need more[1], and because it should be as easy as possible to > parse. > > When this is said, it doesn't rule out that developers that want a > basic search feature in their music app/help browser <insert pet > peeve> can't use this language. There's still lots of functionality. > > I'm not saying that I didn't forget anything or didn't totally blow > it, so go ahead and gimme the flames! +1, no flames here I like the idea of using something more human-friendly. But you seem to have left out the grouping parentheses? type:audio (author=foo title=bar) or (author=bar title=foo)</blockquote><div> That was on purpose. It kinda relates to [1] (below in the quote) . It incurs a more complex syntax (meaning lots more coding work on the server side), and I'm almost willing to bet that the only users using such a feature are reading this mailing list :-) If we are talking about an application that has specific needs to do complex queries it should probably user the wasabi xml query language instead. Also - there's nothing stopping a specific backend supporting this. I just don't think it needs to be part of the standard. But I'm keen on hearing more opinions on this. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> [1]: We actually have usability studies at work supporting this. Users > simply fire of lots of simple queries instead of doing one complex > one. Admit it - you do the same :-) About usability - I think having to change the Reply-To for each post to this list is somewhat odd :) </blockquote><div> Hehe :-) Don't Reply-All work for you?  </div> Cheers, Mikkel</div>