A hidden feature of the action search dialog, is that actions can
be matched based on their label's initials. E.g., "gb" will match
"Gaussian blur". While very convenient, this feature is currently
limited to two-letter initialisms.
Extend initialism-based search, by matching arbitrarily-long
initialisms, and by allowing partial matches (with lesser
priority.)
... and rename gimp_action_history_excluded_action() to
gimp_action_history_is_excluded_action().
is_blacklisted_action() determines whether an action should be
excluded from *both* the history and the search results, while
is_excluded_action() determines if an action should be excluded
only from the history. This eliminates some redundancy across
gimpaction-history and action-search-dialog.
Revert "app: action search should search accross all available actions."
This reverts commit 53b3673bd8.
Had to revert these two commits, quoting comment 6 of the bug:
Thinking again, that entire change is unfortunately wrong, the only
right UI manager is in fact
gimp_ui_managers_from_name ("<Image>")->data
because it's the global popup <Image> UI manager which is independent
of a display and it always in the right state for the currently
active image, all other UI managers are wrong.
<Dockable> has this whole list of actions named similarly to dialogs-*
actions, and we don't want these to take precedence, especially since
they would always create a new dock instead of just showing the existing
one if already present.
Also fix the redundancy check on already added actions.
Since the first action of the list can be run directly with Enter while
the entry is focused, hitting "Down" means one wants to select the next
item of the list. So let's jump directly to the second item on the first
"Down" key pressed.
I now normalize with g_str_tokenize_and_fold() which uses standard
Unicode normalization.
I don't use g_str_match_string() directly though, because I want to
run additional checks to order the results by relevance. For instance
I still want actions whose labels starts with the search string to be
at the top, and results with same order as search token before those
with a different order. Then results with match in the tooltip. Finally
I also returns results with partial match in the label, and the rest in
the tooltip, though at the bottom of the list.
Other than that, this returns the same results as g_str_match_string()
with a similar algorithm. In particular now we only match the start of
tokens (a substring in the middle of a token won't match anymore).
I kept the small 2-character trick matching the first letters of the
first 2 words of the label, but I got rid of the fuzzy search (that none
really found ever relevant anyway).
This is useful for debugging though current consensus is that the finale
user should not care about the technical name of an action.
I did also some minor code cleanup when setting up the model columns.
Fix various bugs, improve code design and efficiency, change feature
name, update the feature up to our standards (now uses GIMP preferences,
session management, less overwhelming settings...).
Also now action history is tightly tied to GimpAction and logs all
action activation (however it activates, and the show_unavailable
parameter also applies to history).
Search algorithm greatly improved with basic tokenization, better
ordering, filtering, etc.
