Document unified search API

[ChristophWurst]

• Blocked by the API changes from Add unified search API server#20916
• Requires Document new bootstrap process #2164

[kesselb]

cc @marcelklehr@raimund-schluessler does that make sense to you? ;)

[kesselb]

Also @korelstar for notes ;)

[marcelklehr]

LGTM.

Currently, a lot of apps override the default search bar in the menu bar to hook in to their custom search functionality. How do we deal with that? Is that functionality expected to be removed in favor of this new search API?

[ChristophWurst]

Currently, a lot of apps override the default search bar in the menu bar to hook in to their custom search functionality. How do we deal with that? Is that functionality expected to be removed in favor of this new search API?

Most likely, yeah. But the UI part is still to do, so there's a lot that might change. 👀 @skjnldsv@jancborchardt

Ref https://github.com/orgs/nextcloud/projects/38

[jancborchardt]

Currently, a lot of apps override the default search bar in the menu bar to hook in to their custom search functionality. How do we deal with that? Is that functionality expected to be removed in favor of this new search API?

Yes, so the idea is that the search bar in the header will become the unified search and work the same anywhere.

In-app search would then move into each app, ideally to the top of the AppNavigation to filter content as-you-type. A great example there is Talk, and the same would be possible design-wise for Files, Mail, Contacts, Activity, Bookmarks, Notes, etc. :)