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@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@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.
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