Re: search file application

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:29:53PM +0100, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to make some comments about the way the "search file"
> application works in GNOME2.
> 
> When you look for "valentine" for example, it looks for files named
> "valentine" in ~/. The problem is that it ignores files name
> "ValEnTine", files named "My Valentine" or files named
> "my_sweet_valentine.ogg". I think it would be much useful if the search
> was case-insensitive by default and if it searched "*YOURTERMS*"
> automatically instead of "YOURTERMS".
> 
> I also think it could revert to the current way when you're looking for
> files in / instead of ~/ in order not to slow searches too much.
> 
> What do you think of that ?
> 
> 

The remarkable Dennis Cranston, unsung hero of gnome-utils, has already done
this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98548

Cheers,
John