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Bug 17634

Summary:	Search Filesystems Dialog doesn't explicitly state what it is searching
Product:	utilities	Reporter:	David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Marian Petras <mpetras>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	pzavadsky
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	UI
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	35255

Description David-john Burrowes 2001-11-13 23:45:26 UTC

One participant in a recent usability study commented that the "Search Filesystems" dialog did   not indicate to them what would be 
searched.

Recommendation: A note at the top of this dialog which informed the user that   this would search all filesystems shown in the Filesystems 
tab might be useful.

Comment 1 _ lkramolis 2001-11-21 18:39:54 UTC

Classified as Enhancement.

Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 17:26:33 UTC

Target milestone -> 3.3.1.

Comment 3 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:54:07 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 4 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:56:27 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 5 David-john Burrowes 2003-10-30 01:40:05 UTC

In a recent usability study, we had the same problem come up again. 
Particpants were sometimes surprised what ended up being searched.

Comment 6 Marian Petras 2005-05-13 16:21:48 UTC

Accepted.

Comment 7 Marian Petras 2008-01-16 14:18:52 UTC

This was mostly fixed by the redesign of the Find dialogue (issue #35255) which introduced a new panel for selection of
search scope (all open projects / the main project / selected nodes). The fix of bug #115267 then added a description to
the search scope over selected nodes - it displays the name of the selected node (if there is just one node selected) or
a numer of nodes (if more nodes are selected).