Simple mode (not keyword based) search dialog

[phobie]

In the search-field colons are special characters, so all keys containing colons need to be enclosed into quotation marks.
The problem is that we use ":" as THE name-space-separator in OSM and many keys contains it.
And all those special-target-strings makes generating usable search-strings even more complicated!

My suggestion to improve the usability of the search-window for end-users:

Keep the default search window and rename "Please enter a search string." to "key/value search string:"

Add CheckBoxes:

• ( ) invert search
• Type: (X) node (X) way (X) relation

Add LineEdit:

• Username: "*"

Add SpinBoxes

• OSM-Object-id: "0" (0 means any, NoButtons)
• Member count: "0" (0 means any, UpDownArrows)

Add RadioButtons:

	only	exclude	inactive
children	( )	( )	(X)
parents	( )	( )	(X)
modified	( )	( )	(X)
selected	( )	( )	(X)
incomplete	( )	( )	(X)
untagged	( )	( )	(X)

[avarab@…]

A simple version of search would be nice but most of those things (parent, children, invert search, node/way/relation) can be combined with other things in the search. So having a checkbox applying that on a global basis to the search would be somewhat confusing.

[phobie]

Yes, the old behaviour should be kept behind a "Advanced"-button on the new version.
Some very rare searches/users might need those complex combinations.
Most searches are simple like "all public_transport=stop* nodes", "all ways by user xyz" or "relations with type=route"...

[vsandre]

According to the maillinglist there should also be a option to find new primitives. (id<0)

[simon04]

Patch added to allow searching for new primitives.

Most of the other suggestions are already available in the search dialog. To realize a simplistic search dialog, one could encode the search as search string of the current one.

[stoecker]

In [4347/josm]:

see #3345 - patch by simon04 - add search for new objects

[simon04]

Is this ticket still relevant as the export mode has been introduced?