On 7 Jul 2005, at 15:50, Bryan Clark wrote:



The more categorization I see the on the desktop more and more I am
convinced that we should be basing our entire desktop off of a search
paradigm.  Picture Seth's little storage applet and typing "How do I
change my fonts", it'd be pretty easy to get someone the right capplet
then - sorry, total tangent.



I know I tried to describe how Spotlight does this on OSX the other day, but this screenshot says it all really... type in a keyword and it shows you all the matching preferences, as well as highlighting all the matching capplets:

http://www.gnome.org/~calum/spotlight.png

Cheeri,
Calum.


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