[Bf-committers] alternate naming for search

[Elia Sarti]

I remember talking already about something like this, and the issue that 
came up was mainly: we can create a very simple tag system, very easy to 
implement, but that will look stupid most of the times, or we can do a 
sophisticate tag-based search system that looks smart most of the times 
but is harder to implement.

For instance in your example what happens if the user types screencast? 
Then you'd have to create some kind of algorithm to determine the word 
(or words) to search for by removing common words and spaces (in 
multiple languages?), ordering them and so on.

What I think would be best is to implement a very basic tag system 
(exact match on tags) but with no tags added in by default. We let 
instead the user add, remove and edit the tags he wants on tools (and 
later could be expanded to resources, like materials, textures, objects, 
etc).
This is how other programs do resource tagging and I don't see why this 
couldn't be expanded to tools as well.

This way you don't care about translation for tags (each user add his 
own in the language he wants) and the user can simply search the 
Internet once for instance for "maya connect in blender" and find the 
corresponding Blender name and tag the operator with connect or whatever.


Campbell Barton wrote, on 02/02/2010 12:20 PM:
> For really good search results we should have tags which dont need to
> be displayed necessarily,
> Putting aside what other apps call features, there are lots of tools
> that have multiple commonly used names.
> - Copy / Duplicate
> - Screen shot / Screen capture / Screen cast
> - Shape / Morph
>
> but not sure if this search feature is intended to be really that
> useful or more a quick way to access any tool.
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> If we do our work well, such features will be covered by the
>> translation system. Hardcoded assumptions about correct maya or max
>> toolnames in our code base are not a good idea.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
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>> On 2 Feb, 2010, at 10:45, Tom M wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Matt and Campbell,
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose we allow alternative naming in the search.  So
>>> that users can add Maya equivalent names; 3DS Max equivalent names;
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> So for instance a blender user would search for knife but a user from
>>> another package might search for Connect
>>>
>>> So if a user enable an alternative naming or keymapping set they type
>>> Connect in search and find
>>>
>>> Blender Name (Maya Name)
>>> Knife Cut (Connect)
>>>
>>> I think this would make migration a lot easier for users of other
>>> packages.
>>>
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