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- autocomplete dropdown:
- the floating version of the autocomplete dropdown gets the same backend treatment the media hovers and the popup toaster recently received--it is no longer its own window, but now a normal widget floating inside its parent. it should look pretty much the same, but a variety of bugs are eliminated. clients with many search pages open now only have one top level window, rather than potentially hundreds of hidden ones
- if you have turned off floating a/c windows because of graphical bugs, please try turning them back on today. the checkbox is under _options->search_.
- as an additional consequence, I have decided to no longer allow 'floating' autocomplete windows in dialogs. I never liked how this worked or looked, overlapping the apply/cancel buttons, and it is not technically possible to make this work with the new tech, so they are always embedded in dialogs now. the related checkbox in _options->search_ is gone as a result
- if you ok or cancel on the 'OR' buttons, focus is now preserved back to the dropdown
- a bunch of weird interwindow-focus-juggling and 'what happens if the user's window manager allows them to close a floating a/c dropdown'-style code is cleared out. with simpler logic, some flicker jank is simply eliminated
- if you move the window around, any displaying floating a/c dropdowns now glide along with them; previously it updated at 10fps
- the way the client swaps a new thumbnail grid in when results are loaded or dismissed is faster and more atomic. there is less focus-cludge, and as a result the autocomplete is better at retaining focus and staying displayed as changes to the search state occur
- the way scroll events are caught is also improved, so the floating dropdown should fix its position on scroll more smoothly and capably
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- date system predicates:
- _this affects system:import time; :modified time; and :last viewed_
- updated the system:time UI for time delta so you are choosing 'before', 'since', and '+/- 15% of'
- updated the system:time UI for calendar date so you are choosing 'before', 'since', 'the day of', and '+/- a month of' rather than the ugly and awkward '<' stuff
- updated the calendar calculations with calendar time-based system predicates, so '~=' operator now does plus or minus one month to the same calendar day, no matter how many days were in that month (previously it did +/- 30 days)
- the system predicate parser now reassigns the '=' in a given 'system:time_type = time_delta' to '~='