Site search

[MitchellMarkGeorge]

As part of 1.0 (or further down the release calendar) it would we cool for users to search through different search engines and other sites (like stack overflow) directly from the extension.

[MitchellMarkGeorge]

Does this mean we should have two input fields (one for the search engine and one for the query)?

[andrei-g-git]

IMO having both a web search input and a tab/action search input on the same modal would over complicate the existing search framework which, to me, looks like is based on pulling in predefined Action items or a predetermined collection of tabs and listing them below the input. Having a 3rd modal with 1 or more search inputs sounds more straight forward without radically revamping the framework, if I understand it correctly.

[MitchellMarkGeorge]

@andrei-g-git agreed. with the sidebar shown in #36 I was thinking it would be a different SearchMode that can be triggered by the user (just like actions)

[andrei-g-git]

I sketched up something, tried to preserve the overall look of the extension:

And I'm thinking it could have a feature to set the default borwser with a dropdown:

...or a checkbox next to the search engine the user picks. The checkboxes and their label would appear on hover over the list item, except for the default engine where they are persistent.

Let me know if you want a redo

[MitchellMarkGeorge]

@andrei-g-git Thanks so much for the mockups! I really like the checkbox idea. It fits into an idea I had for the regular tab search and will fit in nicely. Right now I would say to put off on working on this as I want to implements a "feature freeze" because of the beta launch coming up in 2 weeks. Once the freeze is over, I definitely believe this is one of the first features we should tackle alongside #36. Great work man! 🎖️

[andrei-g-git]

Alrighty off to q/a then cracks fingers

[MitchellMarkGeorge]

Moving this over to Relaunch milestone