[sldev] Landmarks and Navigation Project Update 2008-05-22

[Richard Nelson]

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:24:44 -0700, Argent Stonecutter  
<secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> That means that only pulling in the landmarks folder for the map would  
> have the following advantages:
>
> 1. It would reduce clutter in the pulldown from the map.
> 2. It could be fetched quicker, showing a complete view sooner.
>
> I'm not asking you to "delicately step around having my inventory  
> available". I'm suggesting an additional advantage of restricting the  
> map pulldown to the Landmarks folder, beyond the primary goal of  
> reducing clutter. :)

Ok, my apologies.  It seems we agree in principle then.  I was speaking to  
the overall behavior of inventory fetching, not to the specific behavior  
of the landmarks dropdown in the map.  I agree that the current  
implementation is not terribly usable, and your suggestion sounds  
reasonable to me, personally.

Off the wall idea here...how about a hybrid inventory view/dropdown?  What  
you see at first is a text entry box with an arrow next to it.  But what  
you type in the text field doesn't just perform a match against the first  
characters of each entry, like a typical combo box, but instead performs a  
filter operation against all landmarks in your inventory.  And instead of  
popping up a flat list of landmarks, we pop up a filtered inventory view?   
This would provide a better search mechanism using the existing inventory  
behavior, and allow you to scan by folder, etc.  Under the hood, we could  
let you change the filter rules for that dropdown to only scan a certain  
folder, and so on.

Just a thought.

R.