Re: Searching for files

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 18:36 -0400, Jeff Sumner wrote:
> After looking at
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/UsabilityTesting/PhaseI  it
> is my impression that I should be able to search for documents- but
> whenever I press the "Windows" key to bring up the Activities page and
> then enter a file that I know exists in my home folder hierarchy, I do
> not get an opportunity to open the file- the search field quickly goes
> through applications, and then... blank.
> 
> Should I see an icon that would represent the file? Have incorrectly
> configured things? I have the file manager open and can, of course,
> search from there- and if that's the way it should be done, so be it
> but I'm missing something here about the functionality if I should be
> able to search from Gnome Shell. Accidentally pressing enter after
> trying to search opens up Firefox to a Wikipedia search page .
> 
> Where is the global recent document list, please? Is it gone?
> 
> 
> I'm running Fedora 15. if there's anything specific to the
> implementation of which anyone's aware?

On F15 it works fine for me for recently used files. I don't believe a
more comprehensive file search is implemented yet - it's simply not been
written, though it's planned. But if I type part of the file name of a
text file I recently edited in gedit, it shows up.
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