537896 - Consider adding autocompletion of add-on names

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 546826

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(I've been wanting to file a bug on this since, like, forever.)

Summary: Auto-complete add-on names in the "search for add-ons" textfield

STR:

1. Load https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
2. In the "search for add-ons" textfield, type something you know has results -- e.g. "cooli"

AR:

No auto-completion

ER:

A simple dropdown autocompletion would suffice, a la Google.com

So very Web 2.0! ;-)

Comment 1

[Chris Howse [:chowse]]

Don't we already have something similar on the Create a Collection page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/add)? Go down to the last section (Choose Your First Add-Ons) and start typing add-on names in the text box. Transplantable? ;)

This could also work for category names, tags, and (if we have the data) popular search terms. Not sure how they'd be prioritized or interleaved off the top of my head, but would make the feature a bit more interesting.

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Yeah, that's scattered around.  We'll add it to all add-on boxes eventually, but the current code needs to be tweaked a bit.  Right now it's just a single function that everyone calls, but we need to adjust it for different users.  E.g. admins should see disabled add-ons but normal users shouldn't.

Comment 3

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Attachment: proposal 1, no groups

Comment 4

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Attachment: proposal 2, groups

Comment 5

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

So, one change that will definitely be made is reducing the size of the text and icons. The other changes I'm a bit torn on.

Clearleft thinks we should have a search box that searches everything and we should get rid of the dropdown or more likely move it to the Advanced criteria. I agree with this, but I think it might need to wait until after [z].

So I think option 1 should probably be used until that happens and the suggestions are filtered based on the option selected in the dropdown. If we move to a MAGIC SEARCH later on, we can break it down into categories with option 2.

Thoughts? Dissent?

Comment 6

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

I like everything in comment 5

*rabble rabble*

Comment 7

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

and fyi... I think a lot of magic search is implemented already (on remora and zamboni)... depending on your definition of magic.

Comment 8

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Attachment: search suggestions mock

Comment 10

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified duplicate, though I don't know why work wasn't done in this bug.