[MlMt] serach UI improvement suggestion

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 16 Apr 2012, at 12:26, Alexandre Takacs wrote:

> I'm having a somewhat irritating problem with the search "auto 
> starting" after (I believe) 3 characters being typed in, no matter 
> what the search criteria is.
>
> Unfortunately with my admittedly large mail database this can lead to 
> significant "system hangs" because the search will try to locate way 
> too many messages (imagine searching for "the" in all unquoted body 
> text…) before I had a chance to refine it.
>
> Unless I am missing something, obviously :)

You are not missing anything. The body text search is simply too slow 
for large mail databases. I'll see if I can make it less annoying 
(larger or no delay before doing the search) for large mail stores, but 
the real fix would be to make body text search faster.

-- 
Benny