pazz/alot — Issue #397: configurable search view, threadline formatting
Author: quite
Created: 2012-03-07 09:42:24+00:00
State: open

I would like to be able to configure search view; the order which items appear, item maximum (and possibly fixed) width. A tentative approach to configuration, which would make current authors_maxlength and display_content_in_threadline options obsolete:

search_threads_format = date,count,tags,authors<30,subject,content

"<30" meaning keep length of this item at 30 characters or less (like current authors_maxlength=30)
(ok, if it's slightly non-mathematical, maybe "<31" should be the equivalent of authors_maxlength=30 :)

"=30" would mean to keep this item fixed at 30 characters.

I thought that the choice of alignment (left or right) could be left for the code to make reasonable decisions about.

Thoughts on this?