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Bug 345046 - "Search for Files" imposes ignorecase on the user
"Search for Files" imposes ignorecase on the user
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
3.2.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-15 20:07 UTC by Ajay Gautam
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Ajay Gautam 2006-06-15 20:07:40 UTC 
User should have option to match case for search.

How hard would it be to actually have "Search for files" be a UI for "find"?

Thanks

Ajay
Comment 1 Asif Ali Rizvan 2011-09-29 13:04:50 UTC 
Actually on gnome 3.2, I don't know how to do 'ignorecase' search. If there is a folder "Downloads" searching for "downloads" do not get the result but "Downloads" succeeds.

Is there an option to do ignore-case search?
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-09-29 16:39:37 UTC 
I'd say it should ignore case by default, and maybe add an option to match case.
Comment 3 Peter E 2014-03-29 01:02:17 UTC 
I don't think case-sensitiveness is necessary at all. In what situation is it relevant to leave out search results that, say, are capitalized?
Comment 4 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:30:25 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow
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and create a new ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.