search restarts when view is changed

[Michiel Wittkampf]

First you do a search with nautilus, and the results are displayed. Then you change the view. For example from the Icon View to the List View, because you expect to more quickly find the file you are looking for in this view.

The problem is that nautilus starts searching again, in stead of just changing the view. This is very inefficient for the user.

I suggest that nautilus search should collect all the information it needs for all the views in the search action. During a long search action the user can do something else in between. But as the results come in, the user should be able to quickly work on them, for example by changing the view and then choosing the result he is looking for.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

I can confirm this problem in Jaunty.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is known on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340317

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

this is a bug in nautilus and not a papercut.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.