On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 18:36 -0400, Jeff Sumner wrote: > After looking at > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/UsabilityTesting/PhaseI it > is my impression that I should be able to search for documents- but > whenever I press the "Windows" key to bring up the Activities page and > then enter a file that I know exists in my home folder hierarchy, I do > not get an opportunity to open the file- the search field quickly goes > through applications, and then... blank. > > Should I see an icon that would represent the file? Have incorrectly > configured things? I have the file manager open and can, of course, > search from there- and if that's the way it should be done, so be it > but I'm missing something here about the functionality if I should be > able to search from Gnome Shell. Accidentally pressing enter after > trying to search opens up Firefox to a Wikipedia search page . > > Where is the global recent document list, please? Is it gone? > > > I'm running Fedora 15. if there's anything specific to the > implementation of which anyone's aware?
On F15 it works fine for me for recently used files. I don't believe a more comprehensive file search is implemented yet - it's simply not been written, though it's planned. But if I type part of the file name of a text file I recently edited in gedit, it shows up. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
