Filter running containers

[Vinnl]

Describe your feature request

When looking at the Containers tab, if you have more than, say, five containers, it could be useful if you could filter the containers by name to quickly find the one you're looking for. (And I guess similar functionality would be useful for the lists of images and pods.)

[marhkb]

Hi. Foremost, thanks for your report. Have you seen, there is already a global search/filter?

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I don't want to deny the usefulness of a filter per tab, but I don't know how to place it well together with the global filter without making the UI too cluttered.

[Vinnl]

I did not, thanks for that! I think I expected at search field at the top of every tab, which could disappear when going into global search mode, similar to e.g. this in Extension Manager:

However, looking at a couple of other applications, that doesn't seem a particularly common pattern, and it might clutter up the UI. So I guess it's a trade-off between discoverability and clutter.

Global search satisfies my use case though, so I'm happy!

[marhkb]

I am currently experimenting with a filter entry that is hidden by default. So, the global search shortcut would be re-assigned to Ctrl+Shift+F while the local filter will be assigned to Ctrl+F.

But at this point not sure whether this will land.

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[Vinnl]

Discoverability-wise that looks good, though honestly I'm using Ctrl+F all the time now, and it's actually pretty great that I don't need to switch to the "Containers" tab first to find my container, so it feels like a better default.

That said, maybe just a / if nothing is focused might be more aligned with how others apps do it? (Or maybe Ctrl+/?) In e.g. Firefox, that's Quick find as opposed to regular find, which feels as a somewhat similar use case? It's also a shortcut here on GitHub. Or just no keyboard shortcut.

Also, to avoid confusion of having two different Find icons, it might make sense to use a filter icon instead? Since it basically filters the Images/Containers/Pods that you're currently viewing.

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[marhkb]

See #717