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Bug 17634 - Search Filesystems Dialog doesn't explicitly state what it is searching
Summary: Search Filesystems Dialog doesn't explicitly state what it is searching
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: utilities
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Marian Petras
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks: 35255
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Reported: 2001-11-13 23:45 UTC by David-john Burrowes
Modified: 2008-01-16 14:18 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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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).