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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Looking for feedback on search UI concept.
From:       Diego Moya <turingt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-08 16:23:48
Message-ID: 11ee04940907080923y3d56327dw28b2e57402bf2860 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/7/8 Maciej Pilichowsk:
> How do you solve the scenario:
> * user would like to find file in /home/joe/Images
> * current directory is /home/joe
> * the result are shown from /

Show results in three areas/groups:

a) Current folder
b) Subfolders of current folder - excluding a)
c) The rest of the computer - excluding a) and b)

> Could you sort the list by size please?
This can be done with groups. Sorting elements inside each group is
the current idiom for this.


> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 15:31:51 John Tapsell wrote:
> What search is for, if user has to do manual searching?
>> but sort most relevant hits to the top.
> You put the current folder hits on top, not most relevant.

Search engines can't show the most relevant result first, because they
can't know user intent. But they can show first a good guess, and then
offer relevant options to refine the search. In this case, such
options would be the possibility to select the base folder (this can
be done previous to search, by moving Dolphin there), and whether
subfolders and the root folder should be included or not.
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