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Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
Hi,

here is my new Application.
Scout - Search Contacts, Conversations and Calendars.
You can search for text in Contacts for names, nicknames
usernames, addresses or phone numbers.
Calenderentries with summary or description text.
And text in your conversations.
It is currently in extras-devel. It may crash sometimes
but is mostly useable.

An example is shown in the screenshot for searchtext "test".
The search result category is indicated by the different icons
on the left side (contacts, calender, sms). I use two different
kind of icons for sms and chat conversations and for each
two different icons (with and without the blue arrow)
to distinguish received and outgoing messages.

Selecting a search result has different actions:
-opens a contact details dialog for contacts
-opens the calendar app for calendar entries (agenda view)
-opens a new window with the full message text for
conversations.
I wished I could open the conversation app for the conversation
search result, but I couldn't find a way to do so.



This is my entry for the coding competition. I want to announce it
here and now, first, to collect some feedback and second, because
I know there is a some demand for such an app.

Enjoy,
test and
give feedback.

regards
nicolai
The application and idea is VERY nice. Although I believe you can do something else and win the coding competition....

Make this application a Windows Search/Spotlight scale. Integrate it directly into the OS. Say Im at one of the homescreens. I pull out the hardware keyboard and type "Fox"

It could pull up 3 results:

A contact called James Fox. A click on him calls him. A click hold on him opens a context menu with "Send SMS", "Videocall", etc.
A calander event that says "James Fox's birthday". Clicking on it would simply open calander and take me to that event. Holding could make other options which I cant think of right now for this event.
A application called MicroB. In its description it says "MicroB, the browser based on FireFOX" reason being why it shows up in the results. Clicking on it would open the application.

If we put a adress say, "www.google.com", the search application should be able to see (because of the www. and .com) that it is a web address.

It could pull up 2 results

A option saying "Open 'www.google.com in your default browser (nameofdefaultbrowserherewhichgetsitfromsystemsett ings)"
Pidgin, which has GTalk access which is made by Google

Also typing something like "shutdown" should show the first option "Shutdown Nokia N900"

The idea is GREAT but IMO it needs to go alot further. BTW, Im not sure why you choose NOT to index things (space?)

Besides that, thanks for the great application.

Note: I just noticed that the event ends today. Oh well. Hope you win and that gives you the will to see the points I pointed out