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phy How would a user discover this? Why is this necessary when search already searches through these?

  • phy replied to this.

      Vlad As a keyboard power feature (there's no UI) discovery would primarily come from good documentation.

      The reason for this feature is getting where I want is too slow. If I know I want a certain bookmark why do I have to ↓KEY 13 times or reach for mouse to get to them in this example:

      Upon pressing the space key after a prefix, Firefox changes the bar UI to show you are searching a scope:

          discovery would primarily come from good documentation

          Little worried about that as almost nobody reads the documentation. HIG generally says if you need documentation to discover something, it is not implemented intuitevely. There should be a way to make this obvious.

          • phy replied to this.

            Vlad Hmmm, what about in the right-click of the URL bar:

            Add options with learning hints like Search bookmarks (*). Selecting this would configure the URL bar and move cursor into it ready to type:

            • Vlad replied to this.

                phy Wouldn't that make that popup menu huge?

                • phy replied to this.

                    Vlad +4 lines to it. Considering it is being accessed by a mouse, its far less movement than what is currently being asked searching the URL bar for bookmarks (13 lines in example above). If height is a concern, it could be a submenu (named "Search by..." perhaps) to keep it to just +1 line.

                        4 months later

                        Brief Summary
                        Firefox have this bar in the bottom of the "address window" that lets you choose where the search will happen, if you want to search a different place then the default search engine

                        Details:

                        To some extend its very similar to "Bangs" but not all search engines support that. and this is way more intuative for people who dont know about bangs

                        I think this could be super usefull, especially if you could configure what sites you have as options. example.. github, youtube, wiki. whatever fits your work/freetime needs

                        My only problem with Firefoxs implementation is that when you actually click the icon of where you want to search, it inserts kinda like a bang instead of taking you directly there, so you still have to press enter after.
                        I dont see a need for that extra step.

                          Longely changed the title to Firefox style search options bar .
                            Merged 2 posts from Firefox style search options bar.

                              Vlad

                              Perfect! this looks very close to Firefox

                              Only thing is this is not only relevant for actual Search engines. But also for other stuff like YouTube, Wiki, Github etc..
                              So maybe calling it Search engines is a bit missleading or gives the impression it can only be used for that

                              Not sure what would be a better term tho. Firefox calls it Search Shortcuts

                                  a month later

                                  Brief Summary
                                  In firefox, you can enable what orion calls "bookmark invocation keywords" but instead of searching stuff up, you can search bookmarks, tabs, history, and "actions"

                                  Details:
                                  i realize that orion already can search bookmarks, tabs, and history already, but these allow you to filter the results to only search that type

                                  orion probably can implement:

                                  • bookmarks
                                  • tabs
                                  • history
                                  • actions
                                  • saved windows
                                  • devices

                                  Image/Video:

                                  actions:
                                  basically shortcuts that manage the browser. see the image below

                                  • Vlad replied to this.
                                    Merged 2 posts from Search shortcuts for bookmarks, tabs, history, actions, etc.
                                      4 months later
                                      • something shows only Bookmarks searched by "something"
                                        ^ something shows only History searched by "something"
                                        ? something shows only Suggestions for "something"
                                        % something shows only Tabs searched by "something"

                                      Nice power user feature import from Firefox. You can find Firefox documentation for it here.

                                        7 months later

                                        dantep They are planned for development (as are 1000+ other features)

                                            3 months later
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