Hi all, I'm working on a little extension that shows your contacts (from gnome-contacts) in the menu of a PanelMenu.SystemStatusButton. (The vague idea is you can chat from the menu/open up a chat window by clicking on the contact/other stuff).
I've added a little St.Entry that lets you type in some terms to search for contacts, and the idea is that the menu will then filter out all the contacts matching the search terms. It has just struck me that all I want is the `contactDisplay` search provider in the Overview, but to display the results as items in a PopupMenu instead of the results you get in the Overview. Is there some way I can simply harness the code from search.js, contactDisplay.js, searchDisplay.js etc to do the search functionality for me? I notice that in contactSearchProvider.js, all ContactSearchProvider does is implement a `createResultActor` method that returns a 'new Contact(..)' (which is the St.Bin holding the contact's avatar, alias, etc), and also implements `createResultContainerActor` that makes an icon grid in which to show the results. I'd like to do something similar where my `createResultActor` returns a `new ContactMenuItem(...)` which is just a PopupMenuItem, and instead of the results being added to an icon grid, they're added to the PopupMenu I specify. Is this feasible? Which classes would I need to override to achieve this? SearchTab, ContactDisplay, ... (I suppose I could have a 'tab' being a PopupMenuSection that just gets hidden/shown as necessary?) cheers! _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
