Hi Jariath, On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:26, Jarlath Reidy <jarlathre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To quote myself on the forums here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1783813 > > "I want to search for a file and I don't know which of my hard disks it is > on. > > So in Nautilus, I choose the 'Computer' icon from the toolbar and search > from there. But it seem that from this view you can only search for the > 'presence' of drives, i.e. find their icons. > > I don't think the average user will get this and I certainly don't. How do > I search for my file without opening a Nautilus window for each drive?" true. > It turns out that I needed to choose "filesystem" - the most cryptically > labelled entry on the side pane - to get the functionality I was looking > for. Personally, I think that the behaviour that I was expecting - searching > from the "Computer" location - makes much more sense. Would this not be far > better? > that's all correct, but i think it's better kept in the Nautilus ML. Ayatana doesn't have this problem, we are equipped with semantic search in the Dash, that solves it for us.
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