Comment 5 for bug 509389

And when I say left I sometimes mean right. I must have some brain defect.

2010/1/24, Ulrik Sverdrup <email address hidden>:
> 2010/1/24, Karol Będkowski <email address hidden>:
>> Hi,
>> Please take a look on attached patch.
>> I have added entry field to filter plugins list. Simple but helpful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Karol
>>
>
> Hey, very nice!
>
> I think we should use Kupfer's string ranker though, it would be the
> least surprising to the users (For example that "ntes" matches
> "Notes").
>
> The function is kupfer.core.relevance.score(s, query).
>
> It's slightly more tricky -- do we want to keep the list of matches
> sorted or not? For a simple filter it might make sense, you have the
> matches all laid out. Also we either use a relevancy ">0" criteria
> or a cutoff such as relevancy > 0.1.
>
> It would also be nice if the left hand side switches to the top
> plugin. It shouldn't flicker and update for every keystroke, but
> gently switching to the first in the list would be fine (a
> scheduler.Timer repeatedly set everytime we filter the list would do
> fine I think).
>
> Ulrik
>