[Usability] Two types of find (Was: search is not easy to find aka "a few minutes with gnome virgins")

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:

> 
> > However, is the find tool made redundant by the
> new
> > Nautilus searching? And if not, how are the two
> meant
> > to work together?
> 
> I doubt it.  I'd expect the find tool to include
> more advanced options and
> for the built in tool to keep it simple.  There
> might also be issues
> with the underlying technologies (Beagle?).  I don't
> know for sure.

Sure, I can see that operationally there are reasons
to have both tool.
But with our user hats on for a second -- why are
there two find tools, accessed in different ways, with
different-looking interfaces?
It's confusing, and doesn't give off the joined-up
feel that GNOME should have.

So -- how can we join them up?


		
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