Thread: Instant Search on N900
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cliffordpascal is offline cliffordpascal
2010-03-09 , 10:45
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#14
Originally Posted by majarambuz View Post
Device search is as old as the hills but I'm afraid the Maemo team don't believe in Search much at all. Symbian has had in device search (coupled with Web search) for some time but every time this is raised for Maemo, someone from the the developers answers with why do you want to search, where do you want to search etc.

Same applies for Contact Search. They don't get it that you might want to search for a company name, a phone number, an address.

No, for Search, look on every other OS, but not Maemo. Oh no. We don't do prosaic, useful things like that.

Sorry, but when I see "Asking the other way round: What would you like to search for, and why? ", I get really mad. It's so glaringly obvious why people want to search and every OS has the answer.
I totally agree with you, I mean for gods sake why on earth would people even question the need for a global search facility. its so obvious.

Sometimes a user wants to search for connected material based on the vagueness of a word but they may not have all the detail. get it?

Example. on my n95 i used to use the global search regularly to search for a picture of the london underground. I could never remember where I filed it on the filesystem so i used the global search. If there was no search i would never have found it as I would be somewhere in the gallery as well as the other 2000 odd pictures. Get it yet?

There is a search facility on the n900 which someone has written but it does not go into file content to search for the search string.

When you have a device that is capable of storing mass amounts of data there should always be a global search option as data piles up and one cannot always remember where the data lives.

I dont see why a user should have to shell out to terminal and type command line syntax just to find a document.

I know the n900 is aimed at the hacker community and development community and its definitely not for the avergae joe but this really is ....quite frankly a pain in the !@£$.

Developers could probably knock this app up in 20 minutes.

If I were a developer or I had the time to learn hell i would do it myself.

Honeslty "why do we need a global gui search utility ? " ....come on now isn't it obvious.....answer. I dont want to type in code to find a file or it's contents!
 

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