Re: Brokenness in the search dialog

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:52:46AM +0200, Gaute Lindkvist wrote:
> The Gnome 2 search dialog is pretty nice, apart from the following:
> - if a directory is found as a match for the search pattern, everything
> inside this directory is also shown.
> This means that it is almost impossible to find anything, because you
> basically get TOO many results. A good analogy is the reason why Google is
> so much more popular than other search engines.
> 
> I suggest that the search-dialog just show the directory (and
> files/sub-directories that ALSO have the search pattern).
> 
> If someone desperately wants the current behaviour, I suggest using the
> fact that the widget is the new tree-view, and just show it all as a
> collapsed tree.
> 

You need to file a bug report on this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

Cheers,
John
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