Settings search for Cockpit

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Setting search (as done in various Android and Win10).
You don’t remember where “virtual hosts” are set? You search for it.
This is both a complex and a simple project.
Simple if there is some kind of indexing of settings.
In other words, if I make an application (plug in), with configuration somewhere in Cockpit, I should also supply a list of keywords and URL destination in some specific config file read by Cockpit.
Same for core functionality of course. Build a list of settings and destination.
If this is done, then the rest is easy. Cockpit would just merge the supplied lists, index the contents.

As functionality grows, this is a very nice (and actually “fashionable” and almost expected) feature.

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This was present in Nethgui, and we have the manifest.json files to store information.

So the search function could be implemented in the Applications page…

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Why in the Applications page?
I am talking about a search, “smart” enough to be able even to find a setting within NS own core settings.

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You’re right, also in core settings it is important. I don’t have a trivial solution for displaying both in a single place though. Maybe @edoardo_spadoni has one!