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[Jarlath Reidy <jarlathreidy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frederik,

 Ayatana doesn't have this problem, we are equipped with semantic search in
> the Dash, that solves it for us.


This only finds files I have already used - so it is not really a search of
any part of the filesystem, only my recently used files.


By the way, you ought to try Nautilus 3 because the sidebar is
> arranged differently now. While you'd probably still need to select
> File System for what you're wanting to do, there is no Computer button
> to confuse you. Of course, the Nautilus developers aren't going to
> make design changes to Nautilus 2; if you're going to report a design
> bug, you ought to be using at least the latest stable version of the
> software, if not the development version.
>
> Jeremy Bicha
>

I hadn't thought of that Jeremy, maybe it will be a bit clearer in Gnome 3.
I still think that when I want to search for a file that could be anywhere
there is a fundamental problem. At the moment, no search feature I can find
on Natty operates centrally or encompasses all filesystems.

If nautilus design is out of the hands of developers / designers here then
it should be addressed at the unity level. I've been reading about Lenses. I
think instead of having to add a lens to have full search functionality, the
existing search could be improved in the following way:

1) I choose from Unity launcher to search "Files & Folders".
2) I type "Very Old Document.odt" (which is stored on a seperate disk
mounted as /media/Backups with the label "Backups")
3) Instead of only being told "Your seach did not match any files.", you
could in this case append the message with "Would you like to search the
entire computer?" or "Did you mean 'Very Old Document.odt' from the disk
labelled 'Backups'?".

Jarlath