GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 96014
Search functionality should be added back to Nautilus
Last modified: 2005-12-21 23:24:57 UTC
In some shape or form the search functionality of Nautilus should return. Search option for common right click folder action has been nixed in the past. However, a search button in the toolbar or a File->Search (ala Windows god help us) option of some kind is needed. If search functionality cannot be added back into Nautilus, then Nautilus should use the gnome-search-tool called from current Nautilus dir.
Setting priority to "normal", target to 2.2. This depends, though, on someone stepping up to work on it and could be moved off to "future" if no one does.
Seth is rumoured to be working on medusa. I'm inclined to say this is notabug, cuz technically the search interface still exists in nautilus, just the medusa backend doesn't work. We should implement search in nautilus the correct way, and that way is using medusa.
Bug closed as proposed by Curtis C. Hovey, substitute maintainer of Medusa
Apologies. Bug closed by mistake. Notes: Changed to GNOMEVER2.5 keyword
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allright this is being filed as duplicates now nearly every month, how is the status on the implementation?
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This bug could be solved by simply adding "Search for files" item into Nautilus Places menu :) Now there is incosistency between gnome-panel Places menu (which has "Search for Files" item, but doesn't have "CD/DVD Creator" item) and Nautilus Places menu, which doesn't have "Search for files" item, but has "CD/DVD Creator". This bug was reported more than 2 years ago !!! Why it takes so long to add one menu item into Nautilus Places menu ?
The reason is that the Nautilus developers want to integrate search through the medusa daemon which is kind of like Beagle and other neato search tools. They want to do it the "right way" as oppossed to just adding a button. But in a sense for the community of gnome users as a whole and for the brief moment the decision has alreay in a sense been made. There is a search utility that is THE DEFAULT for gnome. Its not as neato gee-whiz as Medusa, Storage or Beagle but it works and its actually kind of functional. I know because I wrote the Nautilus script Search Here to launch the gnome-search tool in the current directory.
Since it appears that medusa is not being actively worked on and with the addition of other tools like Beagle and more in depth solutions like Storage I would like to humbly assert that the right method of implementing search functionality in Nautilus is not as completely clear as it used to be. It seems that the implementation of a Right Click Search Here hook that launched Beagle (if it ever becomes a part of gnome) or the gnome-search-tool for now defaulting to a search in the panel you right clicked is a logical way to implement the above mentioned functionality. Thanks.
Other requests about this: bug 160479 bug 301561
Created attachment 45558 [details] [review] Patch against Nautilus HEAD This patch adds a menu item to invoke gnome-search-tool from the current Nautilus folder.
Thanks for the patch! Could it be applied to nautilus as it just works, until other solutions discussed here will be implemented?
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Note that a short discussion took place at [1]. We really have to find a suitable search solution. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-April/msg00172.html
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The discussion linked in comment #18 gives a green light to the patch (small, good enough temporary solution until something better works). Would somebody commit the patch please?
Marius: We're in a stage where changing the user interface and adding a feature requires a request to various instances (cf. [1]). The good point about the idea of the patch is that one day, we can replace "gnome-search-tool" by a symlink to a beagle-powered search interface. Setting patch status to "accepted-commit_after_freeze" and adding "BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE" keyword.
Is patch, which adds a menu item to invoke gnome-search-tool from the current Nautilus folder is still BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE ?
nope... we are not in freeze period anymore.
I'm just wondering who removed the "right-click search from the current folder" in the first place ... especially when the "next generation" search is not even ready yet. Really, even if next-gen search is ready, I think most people would prefer the context menu search be available anyway. That's how windows does it, and it works just fine. All that needs to be done is re-enable the menu entry. Please do. ;)
I'm marking the patch as obsolete, since we have beagle integration in Nautilus 2.13, and marking this bug report as FIXED. Mike: Feel free to open a new bug report if you still want to have the context menu entry, but please test the integration before doing so, to get a feel for whether that's really neccessary :).