Re: PATCH for Search in folders (was Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback)

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:13 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:33:07 +0000
> > From: Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> > Cc: Gnome Usability <usability gnome org>, Nautilus <nautilus-list gnome org>
> > Subject: PATCH for Search in folders (was Re: [Usability] Some usability
> >     feedback)
> >
> > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:05 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> >
> > > > > It could of course be in the edit menu as well.
> > > >
> > > > Would definately be useful to have it in the menus.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > - Alan H.
> >
> > Attached is a patch for Nautilus which implements search in folders via
> > the gnome-search-tool. Its accessible in both the main edit menu and in
> > the selection context menu for a folder.
> >
> > Theres a keyboard shortcut of Shift+Ctlr+S to open the search tool too.
> 
> (At a glance the simpler shortcut of Ctrl+S doesn't seem to be in use by
> Nautilus and Ctrl+Shift+S is not easily predictable so)

Ctrl+S is already used to select pattern

> 
>   I would strongly recommend using Ctrl+F as in Find.

I thought about that too but if we did make it Ctrl+F then it would be
best to rename the "Search Folder" menu entry to "Find Files in Folder"
to make the "F" more symbolic.

jamie.