I'm not sure I understand, as far as I was aware doing a search of the file system does not require it to be indexed. Indexing is just a way of speeding things up isn't it?
If I am correct about indexing then my proposal to use a similar system to gnome-search-tool could surely be implemented relatively easily. On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 12:39 +0200, Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]> 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 : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
