QuickSearch - Launch Games and Run Commands by Search

[felixkmh]

Have you considered implementing a StartPage view for QuickSearch?

I think it would be a nice addition to StartPage. I know you can bring up QuickSearch using the keyboard shortcut, but having it built in and being able to reposition the search bar seems like a plus.

I imagine there could be an issue with multiple instances of QuickSearch running if one is active in StartPage and the user brings up another instance manually.... So, maybe not so straightforward.

I already thought about it. Kind of ironic in way, because part of the reason I added the ability to add views from other extension was that I didn't want to add and maintain views that use other extensions... anyway, the bigger problem for this is the way QuickSearch was written. Logic, data and visuals are somewhat tightly coupled (not the right way to do it, but it worked at the time), resulting in one big complex component. So taking out single components is not really as easy as it could be. I would have to refactor the whole thing first, which is not fun as you spent a lot of time just so that everything looks exactly like it did before.

A compromise that would work would be a simple search box that opens the usual QuickSearch view as soon as you start typing.