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Idea #3044: Improve Search Button in Nautilus

Written by ola the 4 Mar 08 at 10:48. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I don't think the search button in Nautilus works as good as it is supposed to do. A great search would be nice!
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Written by ola the 4 Mar 08 at 10:48.
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frandavid100 wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 11:06
This is more a complaint than an actual idea, isn't it?

tbrminsanity wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 12:50
Some one should see if Google would be interested in adding a desktop search for Ubuntu. Make it an addon for Nautilus.

wolfwitch wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 16:31
YES!
One of the very few things I miss moving from Windows is Google Desktop Search! I could always count on it to find lost documents and emails for me.

wolfwitch wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 16:33
Um, okay, I feel really stupid now. Google has Desktop for Linux. They even came out with a 64-bit version.

So- maybe it could be a default? :)

HoellP wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 18:37
I really hope it won't. First I don't really like Google and I certainly don't want them in my personal files. And second, I'm very happy with tracker in terms of results, just the presentation and workflow is still very rough.
I'd love to see a thorough and deep integration of tracker into the system, that we can use it from the cli to the 'open file' dialogue box.
Don't look for a new search daemon when the actual one isn't fully utilized yet.
cheers.

wleoncio wrote on the 18 Nov 08 at 19:06
I agree with Hoel. Tracker (and Beagle, I'd like to add) make a just-as-good-if-not-better job at indexing files than Google Desktop does. A nautilus plugin could be made to make the ones who prefer Google's desktop search engine, but I don't think it should be a plugin.


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