GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98548
Default filename search constraint should be by substring.
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
When current gnome-search-tool you need to specify the full file name to search it or use *pattern* So if I want to look for a Tom Waits song called November you need to enter: *November* This is ok for me, because I'm an experienced user and I now what is a wildcard, but not for a normal desktop user. Also, looking for patterns should be the default beahaviour, because if you use a search, is because you don't know the path or the full name. We can solve this in two differents ways: a) Internally add always a '*' before and after the pattern b) Use a checkbox (checked by default) to add these '*' Both solutions hide the "*" thing to the user
This will have to wait GNOME 2.2 is released.
This will have to wait _until_ GNOME 2.2 is released.
past feature freeze, changing to GNOMEVER2.3
bug 100728 is related
Yeah I agree with this too :) Search strings should probably always default to case-insensitive sub-strings.
Created attachment 13326 [details] [review] A patch to change the default filename search to be by substring .
Applied to HEAD branch. Leaving bug report open until I update the docs. 2003-01-20 Dennis Cranston <dennis_cranston@yahoo.com> * gsearchtool.c: Fix bug #98548. Default filename search should be by substring. As a result, the 'file is named' entry has been renamed to 'Name contains'.
Docs updated. 2003-01-20 Dennis Cranston <dennis_cranston@yahoo.com> * help/C/gnome-search-tool.xml, * help/C/figures/gnome-search-tool_window.png: Updated the docs and screenshot for bugs #98548 and #100728.
*** Bug 104799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If this bug is fixed, then new stable version of gnome-utils should contain fixed gnome-search-tool. Simple users don't understand how to search with curent version :( Now gnome-search-tool is useless for most users and this fix must be included in gnome-utils ASAP.
The fix includes string and documentation changes. For the GNOME-2-2 branch, the strings are frozen. This is why the fix was only applied to the HEAD branch. >Now gnome-search-tool is useless for most users and this fix must be >included in gnome-utils ASAP. Now? Version 2.2 uses the same logic as version 1.4 and 2.0.
I'm with Dennis. I like the changes, but rushing it into a 2.2.x release is inappropriate.