On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 21:59 -0400, Kyle Andrews wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the vanilla GNOME 3.2 Nautilus package on Arch Linux and am > experiencing an issue with search. Nautilus does not incorporate > find/grep style search (as with the Search for Files GUI) in its > results. Only tracker results get shown. I thought this might be > default behavior but I tried Fedora 16 nautilus and noticed it did > return find/grep results. Is there some setting I have to change to > turn on this style of search? Gnome 3.2 has been working > fantastically for me otherwise. Thanks for all your hard work!
Hi Kyle, this hasn't really changed in 3.2 from previous versions of Nautilus; previously we used to autodetect the presence of tracker at runtime, and use that instead of the traditional file system search if it was available. Nautilus 3.2 has a configure option (--enable-tracker=yes/no) that enables/disables the tracker search backend at build time. In a tracker-enabled system, the end result is exactly the same if your distribution enables tracker support in the Nautilus package, but I agree this is still not ideal. The way I think this should work is Nautilus should use both engines at the same time; Tracker could be used as a "fast start" cache for search results, while in the meantime a find-style search is performed in the background, adding missing items as they're found. Patches to implement this behavior in Nautilus are most welcome! Cosimo -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list