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[Edwin Grubbs <edwin.grubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Martin Albisetti <argentina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I often use global search to search across multiple related projects,
>> to find bugs that are actually in qbzr or launchpad-code when I'm
>> looking at bzr, or to find upstream bugs or bugs in another package
>> when looking at one Ubuntu bug.  So just restricting it to the current
>> pillar would probably be a regression of functionality.
>
> This is only because you know that the field is global search. With
> the current design, everything will imply that you're searching in a
> project.

How about a drop-down menu next to the search box that defaults to "in
this project", but also has options for "in this project's group" and
"in all projects on Launchpad"? Then it could be moved to the top
without any ambiguity as to the scope.

-Edwin