I too am anoyed by this behavior , but I have spoken with an Ubuntu Dev and the issue is that file indexing is an heavier operation. I think the dev are well awared about this.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:52 PM, matt <m.richardson.1...@hotmail.co.uk>wrote: > At the moment the files lense uses Zeitgeist logs to display results for > search words. This is very fast, but means that any file that has not > been logged to Zeitgeist will not appear. > > This is often annoying as I will search for a file which I know exists, > but the files lense will return no results. > > I think we should keep Zeitgeist as it results in fast search times, but > instead of just using Zeitgeist, the lense should continue to search the > user's home folder using the locate and find functions, just as the > gnome-search-tool does. > > Just as an interesting side note, gnome-search-tool always finds the > files and on my machine runs very quickly but I would be very interested > to hear other peoples experience, particularly from those with slower > machines. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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