Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 09:44 +0100, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:33:38 +0100, Maurizio Colucci
> ><seguso forever tin it> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>- He was annoyed by the difficulty of searching a folder (he has some
> >>very long folders). He saw the gnome-search-tool in the menu, but he did
> >>not like to have to locate the folder in the file-selection dialog,
> >>since he was already viewing the folder in nautilus. He suggested to add
> >>a "search this folder" option in the right-button menu of nautilus. He
> >>also suggested a quick-search box to quickly find things in long
> >>folders, like in thunderbird (which he uses). He discovered nautilus
> >>scrolls when you press a letter, but this wasn't sufficient for him. (In
> >>Windows he uses the "advanced search tool".)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Too bad he didn't try to type more letters, as it would have worked
> >the same way...
> >  
> >
> Sorry, maybe I should have specified that he didn't know the first 
> letters of the file (e.g. is it "michael jackson - bad" or "bad - 
> michael jackson"?). And he did not know the exact folder as well.
> 
> 
> Mau

Nautilus' icon view typeahead does need some work, I think-- it only
works with letters at the beginning of a file, and it always starts from
the top, so there's no way to search for a second match. Very
troublesome when you have a file with a similar, but shorter name to a
subfolder within a folder.

If it could be implemented like the TreeView typeahead support in Gtk+
2.5, it would be perfect.