Better search behavior of All Actions

[Half-and-Xat]

Description

When looking for specific nodes it's sometimes hard to find things I'm looking for. And even if I know exactly what I have to type in, it can be a very time consuming thing. I would like to have an improved workflow here, since it is the most central thing of Orchestrator/visual scripting. It also makes it easier for non-programmer beginners to start with. They usually don't know the correct function-names and search for the first thing they get into mind.

An example: drag an int-output and drop it somewhere to get the All Actions box with integer-context, searching for + gives Integer Unary+. But I was looking for the most common node for this action, the Integer Addition Integer node, so that I just need to hit + and Enter on num-block to get my math node. Or if I want another node like Integer Addition Float it would be displayed below or above. But the current situation is, that I have to search for at least add to have a good search result, but with focus on a node called Add Child. Even with another character addi I will get the node Float Addition Integer, which requires to move to the more common node Integer addition Integer.

So what is required?

• Nodes need meta search information to get find with alternative search terms.
• Nodes need a ranking depending on context (would be Integer of the example above) and search term.

I would call this issue as "solved" when the backend for this feature is implemented. Improving the ranking or adding meta search information is something to improve over time and with feedback. However, math nodes are something good to start with, since they have a high priority and are great testing objects if things are working as expected.

Implementation ideas

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