Comment 2 for bug 66896

Sebastien Bacher schreef:
> Thanks for your bug. Apparently .odt is not a text format, that's not
> something gnome-utils can change and not really a bug, marking as
> rejected. Feel free to reopen if you disagree

Thanks for formulating the bug in another way. However, it's still a
bug. please reopen. As far as I'm concerned, .doc is not a text format
either and gnome-search-tool can still find the text in those documents.

What you're saying is that people who want to search for text in
documents shouldn't be using gnome-searchtool, or ODF. Well, then the
search tool shouldn't be pretending that it can find text in documents,
because it cannot. So maybe that feature should be removed from
gnome-search-tool, because it doesn't work for the people it is intended
for.

If a user is tech-savvy enough to know that ODF files are really
zipfiles containing xml, and that he should use zipgrep if he wants to
find text in a document, he wouldn't be using gnome-search-tool in the
first place.

One can't expect a user that uses gnome-search-tool to know the
technical intricacies of certain file formats. That's why we have
graphical applications, hiding those details. And if those applications
don't do what the user can reasonably expect, it's a bug.

Wouter