nextcloud / nextcloud/server

Unified search full width, not just pull-down

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Description

I upgraded to NC20 on Saturday, and while I am glad to see how many different things Unified search crosses, it now gives me far less results in the areas I care about, and far less efficiently.

I can understand the search pull-down for just seeing a few brief results works. But I want the "full screen" experience, similar to the previous version. But with the unified and "show more" experience.

When I want to see 50-100 results, doing that as it is in NC20 is painful and actually in a sense worse than pre-NC20. So can we please get this addressed in the near future? I don't really want to wait for NC21 for this to get addressed.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the unified search interface and comparing its NC20 pull-down behavior with the previous full-screen experience. Done means users can efficiently view roughly 50–100 unified-search results in a full-width view while retaining the unified and “show more” experience.

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Assessment

Domain
frontend, search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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