Jellyfin-web: Search results are hard to discern

[gerroon]

Hi

The resulting listing of the search results are really hard to understand because the listings have truncated video names, and there are no other helpers to figure out what the user is looking at.

Please see the image below. As you see all I can see is that they are "Blender related" but the rest is not much clear. There should be a way to increase the text length and the way the search results are displayed, maybe a list based search listing is better.

[JustAMan]

This is a web UI issue, so I moved it.

[ThibaultNocchi]

In the latest repo version, if you hover the names with your cursor it displays the entire name. Is it sufficient?

[gerroon]

@ThibaultNocchi

Well, this solution assumes one has a mouse to hover around. Try this on a mobile or some kind of smart tv.

[MrTimscampi]

For mobile, we could use a tap and hold on the truncated elements to show the full text (It's the recommended Material Design solution, which we sort of try to adhere to where it makes sense for us).

For TV, a solution could be to have scrolling text if the text is too big to fit.

This would likely require quite a bit of work on the affected elements, though.

[gerroon]

Wy not make the listing vertical and show the text properly?

[ThibaultNocchi]

Maybe a listing as when you open the search bar without typing anything?

We could maybe add a client setting to choose between listing mode or "poster" mode?

[Artiume]

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2478

This will fix the search engine. It still needs work on proper sorting for non-movies.

This doesn't really help the UI situation, just wanted to link it :)

[JustAMan]

@Artiume I think this issue is about showing the results, not about the results themselves :)

[Artiume]

That's why I put This doesn't really help the UI situation, just wanted to link it :) ;)

[MrTimscampi]

Please redirect feature requests and suggestions to https://features.jellyfin.org/