#211 Search option in stamps

[Rishabh Shenoy]

Finding a stamp in tux paint is really tough. So can you please add a search option so that its easier?

[William Kendrick]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've been thinking about this, on and off over the past few years, and would love to offer it. We'll need to consider a few things, including alternate names ("car" / "automobile", "chicken" / "hen", etc. -- which I'm finding that some emoji input keyboards on mobile devices do to some degree, e.g. "string" / "thread"), as well as localization of the same.

We'll want to consider offering the same onscreen keyboard that we use for Text and Label tools, when searching.

And finally, we'll need to be careful that the interface isn't too confusing for younger users (or, at the least, provide a way to disable it).

In the meantime, we've tried our best to organize Tux Paint's stamps hierarchically. Each section is loaded alphabetically, so for example in the Animals section, amphibians come first, followed by birds (alphabetically), with cartoon birds next. And so on.

Basically, they should appear in this order, directory/folder-wise (with the contents of each folder sorted by filename, alphabetically *).

tuxpaint-stamps/stamps/animals$ find . -type d | sort
.
./amphibians
./birds
./birds/cartoon
./dinosaur
./dinosaur/cartoon
./fish
./insects
./insects/cartoon
./lizards
./mammals
./mammals/apes
./mammals/aquatic
./mammals/bears
./mammals/bears/cartoon
./mammals/bears/toys
./mammals/bovines
./mammals/camel
./mammals/cats
./mammals/cats/cartoon
./mammals/deer
./mammals/dogs
./mammals/equines
./mammals/rodents
./marsupials
./marsupials/cartoon
./shellfish

* This is not great for localization, of course. It's a tough problem to solve! :-)