GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47619
Human-readable string for simple search with multiple words is awkwardly long
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
To reproduce: (1) Set your search preference to "Search for files by file name" (or use Beginner user level) (2) Type Control-F to get Find widgetry (3) Type "Four score and seven years ago" and hit <Return> The text in the sidebar now says: Search Results Items containing "Four" in their names, containing "score" in their names, containing "and" in their names, containing "seven" in their names, containing "years" in their names and containing "ago" in their names. This text doesn't wrap in the side bar, so you can't read it all unless you have the world's widest monitor and are willing to stretch your sidebar to an insane width. But even if it did wrap, it's a difficult to read and clearly overly-long way to describe the search criteria. My first-draft suggestion: If search criteria contains a single word: Items containing "singleword" in their names If search criteria contains multiple words: Items containing all the words "Four", "score", "and", "seven", "years", and "ago" in their names. Of course, the text should also wrap. (Note that seeing this bug in action is currently blocked by bug 47615.) Obviously this is not a 1.0 issue. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:13 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
File searching is no longer part of Nautilus. Closing this bug.
Sorry for the SPAM. Re-opening the old Search bugs and assigning them to Rebeckas old Eazel account.
Bug closed as proposed by Curtis C. Hovey, substitute maintainer of Medusa