> > On 6/9/06, Matthew Paul Thomas 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.
i agree, home should definately be searched first. really, root files should be darn quick if one should use locate. and perhaps follow-up with a "find /" to be complete. the user can hit stop at any point once they're satisfied with the results. > 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. i'm saying that a search engine should search everything. google doesn't just search a user's home web (a noosphere concept that i am inventing right now that encompasses only the user's writable portion of the web), it searches the entire web. it just makes logical sense to search everything. have a nice evening, mike _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
