Re: Thankyou.
- From: <bordoley msu edu>
- To: Johnathan Bailes <johnathan bailes esi baesystems com>, bordoley msu edu
- Cc: Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>, nautilus-list <nautilus-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Thankyou.
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:32:56 EDT
But why, file searching is file management, and should be reintegrated into
the shell, its just so much more powerful...
dave
Johnathan Bailes <johnathan bailes esi baesystems com> said:
>
> Couldn't the search button this person is looking for be implemented in
> a much easier fashion by simply having the search button launch the
> Gnome Search Tool starting in whatever folder the user is in at the
> moment.
>
> A nautilus script could do this by first cd'ing into the dir and then
> launching the gnome-search-tool. Why the gnome-search-tool does not
> take a directory path on the command line is beyond me but anyway.
> However, a nautilus script is not as nice as having a button staring the
> user literally in the face.
>
>
> --
> Johnathan Bailes BAE Systems ESI
>
> "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
> that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn
> ---
>
>
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