On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:26:15 -0400 > From: Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Gnome usability <[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Usability] search is not easy to find aka "a few minutes > with gnome virgins" > > hello Matthew, thank you for looking further into these issues. > > On 6/9/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hardly surprising: a file search definitely isn't a "place". It's not > > an application either, but at least "Applications" looks vaguely like a > > Start menu. > > the best solution is probably an item called something like "File > Finder" placed in either "Applications" or "Applications -> System > Tools." my gut tells me system tools is better, but that menu is > already quite cluttered. > > > The default should be to search everything you can access, just like in > > Web search engines, > > agreed.
I would agree too but the problem with that is how horribly slow a full search would be on most systems. The tool was designed with the intention of search for user files (documents) which the developers would have expected to find in the users home folder, if perhaps the search checked $HOME first and then the rest of the system it might provide be a good balance. If I understand the original message correctly the underlying task you want to achieve is "searching for available programs" and specifically to do that using the existing find tool so that even programs which have not been correctly listed in the menus could also be discovered. So perhaps the tool could be modified to better allow it to search for programs, to offer options for that specific task. In that case too searching the whole system would not be as efficient as searching in a few specific places first could improve the search. Sincerely Alan Horkan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
