Re: Thankyou.

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 11:09, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 15:56, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> > Sure integrating it into the shell would be nice but why?  
> > 
> > The gnome-search-tool is there why not use it?  Why reinvent the wheel?
> 
> The most compelling reason would probably be that if the search results
> were presented in Nautilus, then you could do anything with them that
> you can do with files in Nautilus.  Run scripts on them, create links to
> them etc.
> 
> Of course you could duplicate all that functionality in
> gnome-search-tool, but then you'd have to keep up (and perhaps even
> duplicate code) every time a new function was added to Nautilus, which
> seems a bit needless.

Esp. since Medusa already exists, already kicks ass, and already
integrates tightly with Nautilus. It just needs a little GNOME 2
love....

-Seth