Re: [Usability][Fwd: search file application]

[Mark Finlay <linuxexpert eircom net>]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:52, Julien Olivier wrote:
> From: Julien Olivier <julo altern org>
> To: gnome-list gnome org
> Subject: search file application
> Date: 24 Feb 2003 17:29:53 +0100
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to make some comments about the way the "search file"
> application works in GNOME2.
> 
> When you look for "valentine" for example, it looks for files named
> "valentine" in ~/. The problem is that it ignores files name
> "ValEnTine", files named "My Valentine" or files named
> "my_sweet_valentine.ogg". I think it would be much useful if the search
> was case-insensitive by default and if it searched "*YOURTERMS*"
> automatically instead of "YOURTERMS".
> 
> I also think it could revert to the current way when you're looking for
> files in / instead of ~/ in order not to slow searches too much.
> 
> What do you think of that ?

Yeah, I would agree. If the user wants to search for a specific name
then they can use "TERM"

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