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SimpleMobileTools / Simple-Contacts

Easy and quick contact management with no ads, handles groups and favorites too.
https://www.simplemobiletools.com
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[feature request] option to make search global and not tab specific #1031

Open avatar1024 opened 9 months ago

avatar1024 commented 9 months ago

I often open the app on the call history tab as I most often call someone that I already called recently, or to call back someone that's just called me. However if I want to call someone that's not in there I naturally use the search to search that contact but then I get an empty result as it searches only in the tab I'm in. So I have to go to the contact tab and then search again. This feels like a rather counter-intuitive behaviour, at least for my workflow.

While I'm sure some user like the current behaviour, it would be nice to have the option to make the search bar a global search across all tabs.

avatar1024 commented 9 months ago

This "global search" behaviour requested here is by the way the default behaviour of the main dial app on stock android and lineage os and so I expect this is what users would be most used to (including myself, and I was rather confused by the behaviour of the Simple Contact / Dial app in that respect)

avatar1024 commented 9 months ago

By the way, should this issue be opened here or in the Simple-Dialer repo? They both seem to rely on the same back-end for contact view / search so I'm not sure.