Posts published by bobufa

Message Search merged into Dino!

During my Google Summer of Code project I implemented message search for Dino, a XMPP client focusing on ease of use and security. Try it out My pull request has been merged and is included in the latest builds on OBS.
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UI polishing and auto completion

Jumping to results For each search hit in the results, three messages are (partially) displayed: The actual hit and the messages before and after that. The hit is clickable and clicking it will jump to the hit in the conversation history.
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Filter expressions

Prototype filters One of the cool features of modern search engines - both in web search and chat search - is the ability to further filter the results using special expressions.
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Search functional, polishing needed

Full text search As announced in my previous blog post, we’ll use SQLite’s Full-Text-Search (FTS) functionality for fast and powerful search functionality directly in the database. To make use of FTS, I had to extend the Dino’s qlite library, which provides a database abstraction for SQLite.
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First steps

The first two weeks of GSoC are over now - time to share some insights on what I have been doing so far to provide a great search user experience in Dino by the end of the summer.
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Hello, Dino!

On May 14th the Google Summer of Code 2018 coding period will start and with it my project on Dino. I want to contribute making Dino a fresh and sufficiently full-featured XMPP client by implementing message search during the next months.
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