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Re: [platform-help-dev] Re: What info will be returned on search hit lists?
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I think there two issues here:
- what can the search engine and associated eclipse code can do to support
certain types of search results
- displaying the search results
For the first one, I think it is fair to assume that the search
infrastructure support pretty much all that has been suggested in this
thread.
For rendering, it looks like we have only expressed a number of
alternatives on what to display, but not how to. For example, when you
search the web, usually you have the entire browser window available to
display the results, so they can be a lot more self-explanatory. In an IDE
help system like eclipse, the search is usually done in a smaller
frame/pane and the labels tend to be much shorter. The proposed breadcrumbs
are very tempting idea, but I am not sure they will be very readable when
displayed on the narrow left frame.
It would perhaps help to also get some feedback on some presentation
suggestions that we can pass on to the media design folks working for
eclipse. We are now in the process of making some UI changes so perhaps it
is a good time to rethink search.
Right now, I would favour keeping things simple, use the <title> for search
hits, display them in the navigation (like currently done), and *maybe*
have a pop up with a short paragraph or the breadcrumbs when moving the
mouse over a result.
-Dorian
