Nautilus default search behavior should be to search current folder

[Joseph Garvin]

Binary package hint: nautilus

By default, if you open nautilus and click search and type in a keyword, it searches your everything beagle has indexed, not just subfolders of your current folder. This is unintuitive because you're always 'somewhere' in nautilus. It feels like the search function ignores this state.

I think it would be most transparent to the user if when you searched, the option to choose what folder that now only appears when you click the + to add criteria always popped up. You'd click search, type in a word, hit enter, and it would pop up, showing what folder it was searching through (the current one). This way it has a sensible default, but the user also knows explicitly what was searched. The least astonishment rule.

[Joseph Garvin (k04jg02)]

P.S. I also just noticed the current behavior is inconsistent with the search gnome-panel applet, which puts the folder to search as a separate option from the ones you get by clicking add/remove critera.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.