On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 20:00 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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.
Thank you. I just did that- and had the same results you do- as my "recent items" selection came up with the gedited file. In other words, there's no real search going- just the shell keeping track of what I myself have edited (and probably saved- but I can verify that).
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