The indexing info dialog is available as a menu item when the search results
list view is on.  This prevents people from being able to view information about
their index or request a (re)indexing before compleeting a search.
This isn't helpful if, for instance, you can't make search work, and want to
use nautilus to figure out why.
It seems as if the right time for the indexing info dialog to be available, if 
we don't want to make it available all of the time, is when the search bar
is displayed, so that nautilus is in "find mode" (feel free to suggest a better
term, this one is bad)
I have cc'ed this to Arlo so he can make a decision on exactly when/where we
want to display the dialog.



------- Additional Comments From arlo@workthatmouse.com 2000-09-22 14:18:21 ----

My suggestion would be to move it into the preference panel.  That's 
becoming our global preference place, and this seems like a great place 
to put it.



------- Additional Comments From rebecka@eazel.com 2000-09-22 14:32:36 ----

Installing it in the preferences panel seems strange to me.
We considered this possibility previously, and then discarded it, since 
nothing in the preference panel currently allows you to actually perform an
action explicitly, like the option to index does.  Perhaps the gnome control 
center is really a better place than the nautilus preference panel?

I'd like to point out, however, that putting the indexing info dialog in either 
of the suggested places is going to be a nontrivial amount of work.




------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-25 10:45:52 ----

I don't understand the idea of putting this in preferences. The indexing info
dialog isn't about preferences, it's about current state. In other words, often
people may want to look at this information but not change it, which does not
meet the definition of "preference" to me.



------- Additional Comments From arlo@workthatmouse.com 2000-09-25 11:22:18 ----

I felt it could be a preference because this may end up being where we 
keep the indexing time preference.



------- Additional Comments From arlo@workthatmouse.com 2000-09-26 16:59:18 ----

To sum up, the preference dialog should contain this an information 
explaining the status of your preference.  The preference being what time 
you would like your computer to index your files.

I'll give Rebecca the screenshot for this.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 19:00:38 ----

Batch-assigning QA ownership of Search Interface bugs to Josh Barrow.



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-01-10 18:09:01 ----

Let's do this with the other prefs work in 1.0.1.




------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:21:02 ----

SPAAAAAAAAAM! 

(Jon Allen has taken these components; QA Assigning bugs to him.)



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