"he search only matches the beginning of entries. You can't type "Doe" and expect to find John Doe. You have to start with "J"."
I just checked, it matches all cases, not just the beginning On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Remco <remc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:35, Jeremy Nickurak <jer...@nickurak.ca> wrote: > > How do you access an addressbook of 2,000 entries with a traditional > window? > > That seems like a daunting task by itself, so I'd be curious to know what > > the strategy there is. > > In the Contact List of Empathy, if you start typing the name of the > one you are looking for, a search box will appear. You'll end up > selecting the entry. There are a number of problems with this: > > * The search box is invisible until you start typing, making it > difficult to discover. Maybe the status text box should be moved to > the bottom, like in Pidgin, so that an always-visible search box can > be placed at the top of the list. > > * It only searches contacts that are initially visible in the list. > Offline contacts are usually hidden. You should be able to also find > offline contacts, who you could then send an offline message or an > email (that last functionality does not currently exist though). > > * When doing the search, non-matching entries remain visible. It's > just that the selection moves to the first visible entry. > > * The search only matches the beginning of entries. You can't type > "Doe" and expect to find John Doe. You have to start with "J". > > > In the Messaging Menu, I would not place a list of all contacts. That > could get messy with 2000 contacts. It's better to just put a search > box there. If you start typing in the search box, matching contacts > will start appearing in the menu. Maybe the concept of "favorite > contacts" could be introduced, so you can have a couple of contacts > that appear in the menu before searching. > > -- > Remco > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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