Weblate: Language-wide search and UI

[comradekingu]

It is possible to search project-wide https://hosted.weblate.org/#search

Curiously that view has two buttons that are duplicated in the top menu.

Tools >
All languages
All projects

In project and component view "Search" has a tab of its own

In any language overview there is no search, neither by tab or by menu. I prefer the tab.

[nijel]

The duplicated items are there for historical reasons, but with 4.0 release it's probably good time to remove them, but please let's keep one topic per issue, thanks :-).

[nijel]

As a workaround you can already do this on site-wide search by incliding language:nb_NO in the search query.

[Ricky-Tigg]

What a pity; Sending a duplicate of the present. So language:nb_NO was presented here as a workaround; let's see is that so.

Option invariably available is that default:
_Translated strings in a certain language_ | is:translated AND language:cs | Add

• To be coherent the default language code is expected to refer to _English_. Here though it is cs; indeed invoking a search query with default, covers a language referred there as _Czech_.
• Invoking a search query that suits a legitimate need would require to modify by hand the original filter string in order to become language:fi. Such dependency on users to get right things done does not look like any more what a well developed translation platform is aimed to be. A bit annoying isn't it that Fedora organisation decided to chose it.

[nijel]

Thanks for providing useful feedback. Did you notice that that section is labelled "Query examples"?

[Ricky-Tigg]

Thank you; that is the _action-reaction_ model applied. _Query examples_ | That's precisely where my above mentioned expression '_Translated strings in a certain language_ | is:translated AND language:cs | Add' came from. The section illustrates a knowledge that developers have, not common mortals.

[nijel]

It has been described as a workaround not as a final solution. Somebody just needs to implement the search UI properly.

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