This bug is spun out from bug 42207.

Currently, Nautilus will not return more than <n> search results. <n> is the
same limit used for all directory counts -- Nautilus will give up loading files
after <n> have been reached. The directory view displays an alert telling the
user that too many items were found, and in the search results case this alert
has been tailored to make sense for search results. That's where we stand now.

This could be improved in the future in various ways. Perhaps it makes sense to
have the limit for search results be smaller than the limit for directories in
general. Perhaps the limit for search results (and maybe directories in general,
I guess) should be user-controllable, or take into account the machine's
available RAM. Perhaps we should find all matching items but present them in
chunks, with some back/forward type navigation to get between chunks.

We definitely don't need to do any of these things for 1.0.



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-01-12 15:02:25 ----

Later for this ...




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:51 -------