Quick Navigation from Search Bar
Release Notes
When searching through GitLab, sometimes you just need to go to a specific project and not a search result page.
In the Global search bar, you can now quickly jump to Recent Issues, Groups, Projects, Settings, and Help topics.
Documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/#issues-and-mrs-assigned-to-you-or-created-by-you
Problem
When starting a search from the global nav search bar, results for projects and groups are returned inside of that dropdown. This poses two issues:
- The dropdown has a noticeable delay to load and show the various scopes while it retrieves those results.
- A Maximum of 5 results is returned with no way to navigate to get more or know if that's all of the results.
Proposal
We should remove the search results from the search dropdown. This will help to to speed up the search dropdown and provide information on the available scopes faster, as well as prevent any confusion over those results.
Backup plan
If users found this feature valuable it should be re-implemented with some kind of lazy load so that the scopes are still instantly select-able and then those results can load in later. This will keep the performance of the search up navigation high.