[packagekit] Simpler search

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 15 00:41:02 PST 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:00 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Like the attached? There's some test code in git, but we can revert it
> if I've got the wrong end of the stick.

Look very cool, but maybe we should :
1. have a way to specify what to search for (name, summary, repo, 
description)
2. just populate the view with the matching packages when more than 4 
chars is typed.

Tim



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