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Bug 453067 - "Select Pattern" is an inaccurate and non-obvious name
"Select Pattern" is an inaccurate and non-obvious name
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
2.18.x
Other Mac OS
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-02 11:06 UTC by Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Modified: 2008-07-04 16:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2007-07-02 11:06:38 UTC 
Nautilus 2.18.1, Ubuntu 7.04

The "Select Pattern" menu item is not accurate (it selects files and folders, not patterns), not obvious (many people do not know what a "pattern" is in this context), and is missing an ellipsis (because it requires further user input before the usual goal is completed).

A small fix would be to change it to "Select Items Matching...".

(A more extensive fix would be to merge this function with the file search interface.)

It will likely save time to fix bug 301690 at the same time as this bug.
Comment 1 A. Walton 2008-07-04 16:58:27 UTC 
This was fixed as a part of bug 335112:
2008-05-09  Cosimo Cecchi  <cosimoc gnome org>

	* src/file-manager/fm-directory-view.c: (select_pattern):
	* src/file-manager/fm-icon-view.c:
	* src/nautilus-navigation-window-menus.c:
	* src/nautilus-spatial-window.c:
	Ellipsize and HIG-ify some menu items. (#335112).

Closing as such. Thanks for reporting!