Re: Brokenness in the search dialog



Suggestions should go to bugzilla. Are you using the simple search tab? In
that case it's using locate to search which returns all matches. Don't know
if you can tell locate to just return the directories.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gaute Lindkvist" <lindkvis stud ntnu no>
To: <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 6:52 PM
Subject: Brokenness in the search dialog


> The Gnome 2 search dialog is pretty nice, apart from the following:
> - if a directory is found as a match for the search pattern, everything
> inside this directory is also shown.
> This means that it is almost impossible to find anything, because you
> basically get TOO many results. A good analogy is the reason why Google is
> so much more popular than other search engines.
>
> I suggest that the search-dialog just show the directory (and
> files/sub-directories that ALSO have the search pattern).
>
> If someone desperately wants the current behaviour, I suggest using the
> fact that the widget is the new tree-view, and just show it all as a
> collapsed tree.
>
> Gaute
>





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