Search in preferences

Haarolean

It would be nice to see a search bar in preferences to find some option quick as there are many tabs and options.

YowayBuorn

CMD+F to search through settings

Vlad

Where would search be located?

Haarolean

Vlad Adding a wide input between the toolbar icons and the tab's content would be good imo:

Vlad

That is not really common? I wonder if we should switch to Sonoma style settings (with search on top of sidebar)?

Haarolean

Sorry I'm not quite familiar with newer macOS design solutions, but this would look okay with my mojave for example, the way it's designed within system settings, for example:

aldo

Sometimes I know exactly what setting I'd like to change, but I don't know which category it's nested under.

For example, today I wanted to increase the default page zoom. I know 100% that the setting has the word zoom in it.

First I checked General, because it's the default.
I hit cmd+f hoping to type zoom, but obviously that doesn't work.
I checked Appearance and Browsing because they sounded relevant.
It wasn't there, so I checked Advanced
Finally, I just started checking every category again left to right until I realised it's under Websites... which makes sense now that I know.

Coming from Chromium, I'm used to cmd+, to open settings and instantly typing the thing I need, because the cursor is already in the search box. Or launching macOS global system preferences via alfred/raycast and hitting cmd+f. Good search is powerful 🫶

I hope you have a nice day!

cmd+,
cmd+f
zoom
matching results listed
arrow keys followed by enter to navigate

olivaava

Sometimes I know exactly what setting I'd like to change, but I don't know which category it's nested under. Orion allows you to extend its functionality by using live car game Programmable Buttons. To add a Programmable Button, right-click anywhere on the Toolbar and select Customize Toolbar. A modal will appear with all available buttons. Drag the Programmable Button to the desired location in the toolbar and click Done

Yannick

Next year we're going to have to revisit the preferences window since more and more options are going to pop up, and I promise, we'll add a search feature 🙂