[GTALUG] desktop search in GNOME

[David Collier-Brown]

See if you can find a config that controls it: it may have been 
defaulted to off, as it can be an expensive operation for someone who 
never uses it.

Setting the default to off is exactly what a UX designer might do.

--dave


On 22/10/16 08:59 AM, Matt Price via talk wrote:
>
> Yeah,. It's lamentable.  I can't even find decent documentation for 
> how to set it up oneself. I don't understand why that would have 
> disappeared too.
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2016 8:42 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Matt -
>
>     > I've been using GNOME for a long time and am used to it, but the
>     desktop
>     > search functionality is pretty limited. In my current
>     installation it
>     > doesn't seem like tracker is integrated into the "windows" key
>     search --
>     > but from what I read it's supposed to be.
>
>     I'm in the same boat with Ubuntu. Tracker - or an equivalent -
>     *used* to
>     be set up. I'd say about 2-3 years ago, desktop search on my
>     machine was
>     comparable to Windows or Mac OS Spotlight: hit the hotkey, start
>     typing,
>     and files containing your search term would appear. Now, at best I get
>     files with the search term *in the filename only*.
>
>     This is NBG. I have lots of files, and I'm a fairly messy person.
>     A big
>     heap of files with searchable contents *should* be indexed, and
>     not by me.
>
>     cheers,
>      Stewart
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