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I fully agree have you looked at gnome-do? its the gnome answer to spotlight / quicksilver, you invoke it, start typing and it lists matches in a somewhat simi

I fully agree have you looked at gnome-do? its the gnome answer to spotlight / quicksilver, you invoke it, start typing and it lists matches in a somewhat similiar manner. The current release in ubuntu is somewhat patchy, but I really hope they work hard on it and enable it by default in the next release, its an awesomely useful application that has at times replaced 1. the menu bars completely, 2. a lot of trivial stuff done in the shell (copying / findings files) 3. the awesomebar for firefox 4. navigational controls (alt+tab for window focus)

erikwiffin 17y ago
"somewhat patchy" is an understatement. it's probably the buggiest software I use on a daily basis. That being said, I use it on a daily basis and wouldn't dream of going back to doing things the old way.
- daleharvey 17y ago
  yeh I feel the same. I vaguelly remember a drunken conversation with an ubuntu "high up" saying they were either working hard on gnome-do or an alternative, and that there would be a lot of focus on it for one of the upcoming releases.
_pi 17y ago
This works for smaller amounts of data, but hierarchies are still needed to sort very large amounts of data that have to be accessed at any time. Yes indexing/searching/filtering is an option but when you have 1GB of pure text, searching "the company" is gonna get you several hundred hits. Google excels at this because they've created ways to dynamically optimize their results via user input. However no one is gonna do that for your private docs. Personally krunner like gnome-do is useful but not for searching my files, because it gives no context. Someone needs to create a good kde app/plugin for context able searching through strigi.
- daleharvey 17y ago
  this is quite like how I would like to search press s + SPACE / TAB, then start typing, it matches on 1. directories, 2. google autocomplete results, if I pick a directory, then I tab to enter a phrase to search for, if its google, then the search is performed.

erikwiffin 17y ago

"somewhat patchy" is an understatement. it's probably the buggiest software I use on a daily basis. That being said, I use it on a daily basis and wouldn't dream of going back to doing things the old way.

daleharvey 17y ago
yeh I feel the same. I vaguelly remember a drunken conversation with an ubuntu "high up" saying they were either working hard on gnome-do or an alternative, and that there would be a lot of focus on it for one of the upcoming releases.

_pi 17y ago

This works for smaller amounts of data, but hierarchies are still needed to sort very large amounts of data that have to be accessed at any time. Yes indexing/searching/filtering is an option but when you have 1GB of pure text, searching "the company" is gonna get you several hundred hits. Google excels at this because they've created ways to dynamically optimize their results via user input. However no one is gonna do that for your private docs. Personally krunner like gnome-do is useful but not for searching my files, because it gives no context. Someone needs to create a good kde app/plugin for context able searching through strigi.

daleharvey 17y ago
this is quite like how I would like to search press s + SPACE / TAB, then start typing, it matches on 1. directories, 2. google autocomplete results, if I pick a directory, then I tab to enter a phrase to search for, if its google, then the search is performed.