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[matt <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure I understand, as far as I was aware doing a search of the
file system does not require it to be indexed. Indexing is just a way of
speeding things up isn't it?

If I am correct about indexing then my proposal to use a similar system
to gnome-search-tool could surely be implemented relatively easily.

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 12:39 +0200, Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga wrote:
> I too am anoyed by this behavior , but I have spoken with an Ubuntu
> Dev and the issue is that file indexing is an heavier operation.  I
> think the dev are well awared about this. 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:52 PM, matt
> <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         At the moment the files lense uses Zeitgeist logs to display
>         results for
>         search words. This is very fast, but means that any file that
>         has not
>         been logged to Zeitgeist will not appear.
>         
>         This is often annoying as I will search for a file which I
>         know exists,
>         but the files lense will return no results.
>         
>         I think we should keep Zeitgeist as it results in fast search
>         times, but
>         instead of just using Zeitgeist, the lense should continue to
>         search the
>         user's home folder using the locate and find functions, just
>         as the
>         gnome-search-tool does.
>         
>         Just as an interesting side note, gnome-search-tool always
>         finds the
>         files and on my machine runs very quickly but I would be very
>         interested
>         to hear other peoples experience, particularly from those with
>         slower
>         machines.
>         
>         
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