Salvete!
I am not feeling comfortable with adding more search options to the masthead search bar too. As you wrote it should be simple to use and we already offer a lot of options there.
One of the bugs noted that the full functionality can not be achieved by using jQuery, so maybe we can find another compromise.
Perhaps this needs to be made configurable sometime in the future. Could we make it easy to use CSS to hide or even 'unhide' some of the options?
This sounds like an idea for an interface and usability panel or committee. Would it be a helpful starting point if I screenshot what folks are talking about and then rearrange it how it would look in my world? I think some of the struggle we face in preferences now is from there still being a One Koha To Bind Them All in the stead of modules that are specific to different Library types. Yes, I do realise that I don't have any money for building modules, but it won't stop me from thinking that different preset out of the box skins and preference set ups would save a lot of user and vendor time in the long run. I appreciate you all for at least talking about it. It's part of what makes us different from ye olde proprietary vendors. :) Cheers, Brooke