Binary package hint: tomboy
This is a small, but simple, bit of polish that I'd really like. I was searching for one of my notes, so I typed some words in it into the search bar. No results were found, and I was sure I had a note named like that, leaving me momentarily confused. It took me a bit to realize that I was searching within a specific notebook, and that tomboy was confining my search to that notebook in particular.
So, my suggestion is relatively simple - when the user is searching within a notebook and no results are found, write something like "No results within this notebook found" in the area where the search results normally appear.
Since the user's next action there will usually be to search all notebooks instead, it would also be nice to offer to do this for the user. So something like "No results within this notebook found. Click here to search across all notes." Clicking there would then have the same effect as clicking on All Notes.
Another case to consider is when the user finds a note while searching within a notebook, but not all of them. Here the system could (in the background) scan all the notebooks when a notebook-specific search is done, and then if other matches are found say something like "4 matching notes were found in other notebooks".
Anyway, even if only part of these suggestions are tried, it would probably improve the user experience, especially for new users to tomboy who don't yet know that searches are confined to a particular notebook. Thank you!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tomboy 0.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomboy
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
Hi,
I made some additions to the code. So now, in case if there are no search results found in the selected Notebook, the user will be shown a Messagebox, where he is asked if he would like to search in All the Notebooks. If the user's response is Yes, then the search is performed again, with "All Notes" selected.
It is working fine on my system.
I am running Ubuntu 10.10
Architecture: x86
Package: tomboy (1.5.2)
uname -a : Linux 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux