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Search bar for Settings UI

Open vadimkantorov opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

When there's many global settings, it's useful to have a search bar (Windows Settings and other complex software packages feature this).

Another feature may auto-save for Settings. Windows Settings has this (more debatable).

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vadimkantorov avatar Apr 20 '22 18:04 vadimkantorov

  • maybe a separate search/filter bar would be helpful for keybindings window

vadimkantorov avatar Apr 29 '22 17:04 vadimkantorov

  • maybe a separate search/filter bar would be helpful for keybindings window

see #11630

zadjii-msft avatar Apr 29 '22 17:04 zadjii-msft

I prefer to chose when to Save settings changes, please don't automatically do that!

g0t4 avatar Nov 01 '23 19:11 g0t4

💯 Settings search would be useful given the plethora of (well organized) tabs and nested configuration.

Use cases:

  • Finding where a setting is located
  • Discovering new settings
  • Linking to related, external settings (i.e. Cursor blink rate is in Keyboard Properties Windows control panel)

Ideas:

  • The settings schema has stellar descriptions/enums/etc so that could be an easy way to bootstrap search data:
    • i.e. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/terminal/release-1.19/doc/cascadia/profiles.schema.json
    • I use this as a workaround to discover settings.

g0t4 avatar Nov 01 '23 19:11 g0t4