Bug 31833

Summary:	add a search box to services and daemon window
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	fadi halim <halimfady>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith, sturm-fr
Version:	8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	services window

Description fadi halim 2023-04-22 19:57:22 CEST

Another feature request , Please add a search box to services and daemon window in control center. The search box should query the services titles and description. so if yo want to go to httpd service quickly, you

Comment 1 fadi halim 2023-04-22 19:58:26 CEST

you type httpd or apache.

Comment 2 fadi halim 2023-04-22 19:59:12 CEST

Created attachment 13776 [details]
services window

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2023-04-22 20:58:49 CEST

Thank you for the suggestion, but it seems hardly needed - because the list is in alphabetical order. You are suggesting merely to not have to scroll down the list, which is trivial.

As for the Descriptions (which are displayed on hovering, and are tedious to search), in many cases, the daemon name tells all. However, it might be useful for the list to instead display the Description on a line underneath the daemon name. Certainly this would make the list visually much longer, but obviate the need to 'hover' each entry. One does not look at it very often...

Interesting that you cite as examples 'httpd' or 'apache', which my system does not have; so I cannot see how they appear. If they are displayed as such, then the usual alphabetical scroll search would find them quickly.

CC'ing Sturmvogel for his opinion.

Severity: normal => enhancement
CC: (none) => lewyssmith, sturm-fr

Comment 4 sturmvogel 2023-04-22 21:10:41 CEST

I have to agree with Lewis:
- there is no additional advantage of a search box as you only need to scroll down the alphabetical list
- even if the list grows (dependend on your amount of installed packages) it is easy to find the wanted service
- also other distributions with a way more developed and advanced "controlcenter" like openSUSE with yast2, don't provide a search box in the services menu

So this seems like a feature request with no evident advantage.

Comment 5 Lewis Smith 2023-04-22 21:49:05 CEST

So fadi halim please accept the bug closure in good faith. We appreciate your interest. You can always re-open a closed bug if you have more information to add.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 6 fadi halim 2023-04-22 22:06:09 CEST

I do not think the feature is important either. I was just sharing an idea. So close it off if you like.