[packagekit] Simpler search

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:28 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 8:24 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:11 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > > What do you think about combining the name/description search options
> > > in the pk-application UI?  It seems unlikely that the user really cares
> > > whether the term he is searching for matches the name or the
> > > description.  Can we combine those two options, or have a default
> > > search option that searches by name, then description?
> >
> > Well, I don't think we should combine the search in the backend (i.e. 2
> > methods into 1) as some clients may just want a simple search and not
> > want the extended search as it may require downloading metadata.
> >
> > It might be a good idea to default to a "both" search option in the UI
> > that does a simple search then a detailed search on the same query.
> 
> >From a usability POV these should really be one.

I'm not so sure (but up for a lively debate :-) - I often _know_ the
package name of something I want to install, for instance "kpowersave".

Sometimes I'm just searching for "gokart" and want deeper searching to
find supertuxkart.

Richard.