Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Miscellaneous/Search bar at preferences

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Search bar at preferences

Problem: Too many preferences, no way to easily search through them
Proposed solution: Add a simple search bar to function as a filter
Who would benefit: Everyone
More comments: The title is self-explanatory.
Phabricator tickets: T313804
Proposer: Klein Muçi (talk) 13:55, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This may be the same solution that phab:T53147 is looking for, just for all the prefences not just one tab of them. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Xaosflux, I'm not sure if T313804 has thought about this detail (it didn't look so with a quick glance at the comments) but I'd wish that the said search bar would work with the English terms no matter what language was chosen, same as English namespace terms work globally. A lot of time you'll read documentation or help pages referencing a specific preference that needs to be toggled but you'll have no idea what that preference is actually called in your language (documentation is usually provided in English). — Klein Muçi (talk) 16:45, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It could probably be set to work the the canonical name (generally in English) and the label name. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:52, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Strong support Yes, please! --Frettie (talk) 18:24, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —2dk (talk) 18:51, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Finding anything on Special:Preferences that isn't on the first page is a pain. I imagine it must be even worse if you're unfamiliar with the page. —Mainframe98 _talk 19:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · m · c) 20:27, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Marlin Setia1 (talk) 21:13, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rtfroot (talk) 21:28, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support RoadTrain (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Strainu (talk) 21:40, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Too complicated as it is. Firestar464 (talk) 22:13, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 23:04, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 23:22, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 23:38, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support DemonDays64 (talk) 00:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Poslovitch (talk) 00:35, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The preferences are not complicated at all for me (they are in fact much more simple than those from other sites), but a search bar like this could only help. --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 01:25, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 02:39, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 03:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Doktor Züm (talk) 07:56, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kekavigi (talk) 08:33, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arado Ar 196 (talk) 08:40, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JopkeB (talk) 08:43, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 09:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kante4 (talk) 11:38, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JackPotte (talk) 14:42, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bluerasberry (talk) 14:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 16:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rots61 (talk) 16:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Terasail ^[✉️] 17:22, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Conny (talk) 18:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support VastV0idInSpace0 (talk) 20:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ivario (talk) 22:13, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 22:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Goliv04053 (talk) 00:15, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support There are some preference that are hard to search and this is a pain. Thingofme (talk) 03:01, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gohan 04:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 04:06, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support MASUM THE GREAT (talk) 05:40, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 05:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support HLFan (talk) 07:36, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support this so much. It is so hard to explain where an option is. Also finding gadgets is hard. Filtering by parts of words would make things soooo much easier. --Nux (talk) 09:19, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support P12062545 (talk) 21:27, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support BRP^ever 10:12, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Titore (talk) 14:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — putnik 18:04, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellence (talk) 20:23, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:15, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Sdrqaz (talk) 03:25, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lion-hearted85 (talk) 13:22, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support //Lollipoplollipoplollipop::talk 13:33, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Andreasl01 (talk) 19:38, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matma Rex (talk) 22:24, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 23:34, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 07:34, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 11:28, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 15:58, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hey man im josh (talk) 17:01, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 07:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. stjn^[ru] 14:01, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:03, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 19:47, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 03:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lightoil (talk) 03:09, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support 3mi1y (talk) 09:10, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 11:10, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wire723 (talk) 11:21, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:41, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tutwakhamoe (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hans5958 (talk) 05:11, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This shouldn't be too hard. Also we need it in Special:SpecialPages too (or redesign that page please, it's horrifying) Amir (talk) 08:23, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 11:19, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nashona (talk) 15:18, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support NaBUru38 (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kalendar (talk) 08:16, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support مرتضا (talk) 15:23, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Althair (talk) 04:32, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support hgzh 07:17, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --SalmanZ (talk) 13:56, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 03:17, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]