Make it easy to share a filtered view of the registry

Release post

You use the GitLab Package and Container Registry to publish and share your project's dependencies. You use the user interface to view, validate and (sometimes) troubleshoot those dependencies. But have you ever found yourself filtering the registry based on name or type and then tried to share a link with your teammate? You can't do it. That means that your teammate had to manually search/filter the registry to recreate the same view as you. This is quite inefficient and could result in someone using the wrong dependency.

Moving forward, you will be able to share a link to these views to help make sharing and discovering the dependencies of your project seamless. This is part of a larger epic to improve dependency search, discovery and deletion. You can follow that epic here: &5152 (closed)

Problem to solve

Currently, the Registries have a searching and filtering UI that is totally similar to Issue and MR searches.

The difference results in the fact that the search and sorting terms are not reflected in the URL thus making the search/sorting configuration not linkable.

Proposal

Connect those to the URL and allow users to share links of pre filtered registries.