[packagekit] Simpler search

Sebastian Heinlein glatzor at ubuntu.com
Thu Feb 14 23:49:27 PST 2008


Am Donnerstag, den 14.02.2008, 23:00 +0000 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:51 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > The only way to do live search in a sane way is to have the complete 
> > list of packageid in mem, in the frontend.
> 
> You you think using a GtkEntryCompletion might be the best plan, i.e.
> have the packages coming up in the text entry itself?
> 
> Richard.

The best way is to instantly show the search results in the package list
and to remove the find button.

If the entry text changed you could at first search for the name and
then for the details. This would allow to show some first results early.
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