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Bug 491650 - Add "Search Tool" preferred application selection
Add "Search Tool" preferred application selection
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Preferred applications
2.21.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on: 491647
Blocks: 491652
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-30 09:44 UTC by Luca Ferretti
Modified: 2007-11-01 08:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
The patch to add "Search Tool" section under System tab (183.85 KB, patch)
2007-10-30 09:49 UTC, Luca Ferretti 		rejected Details | Review

Description Luca Ferretti 2007-10-30 09:44:25 UTC 
There are several search tools currently available for GNOME Desktop: the old gnome-search-tool, nautilus' x-nautilus-search:// location, tracker, beagle, deskbar applet...

I really think GNOME should allow set the user's preferred tool and lauch it on demand: hit the search key or keybinding on keyboard, select Places->Search Files, click Search button on panel...)
Comment 1 Luca Ferretti 2007-10-30 09:49:22 UTC 
Created attachment 98164 [details] [review]
The patch to add "Search Tool" section under System tab

Notes:
  * code is shamelessly copied from media_player support
  * patch is against gnome-2-20 but should applied to TRUNK
  * as usual editing a glade file will produce a lot of changes, so be
    sure there are no regressions
  * new GConf keys (libgnome, see "depends on")
  * this patch will only change Default Applications capplet, will not
    actually "use" the choosen search tool in desktop
Comment 2 Jens Granseuer 2007-10-30 17:02:25 UTC 
I feel like this is the completely wrong solution.

Gnome should have one (1) official, supported search tool. That tool may have as many backends as it wants or needs, but they're all doing the same thing for deity's sake! Why do we need X frontends??