Bug 6634 – No universal search function on N900

Bug 6634 - No universal search function on N900


Summary:	No universal search function on N900

Status:	RESOLVED MOVED

Product:	Desktop platform
Component:	general
Version:	5.0/(1.2009.42-11)
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Low enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	HAF QA mailing list

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Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported:	2009-12-06 20:17 UTC by Miguel Vermehren
Modified:	2010-01-04 15:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Miguel Vermehren (reporter) 2009-12-06 20:17:59 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
1.2009.42-11
EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
Press Ctrl-F on the desktop 

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
Universal search on the device contents
ACTUAL OUTCOME:
Nothing
REPRODUCIBILITY:
(always, less than 1/10, 5/10, 9/10)
always
EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:
none
OTHER COMMENTS:
A universal search function is common. The last iterations of S60 have it. So
should the N900.
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5)
Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-12-06 21:51:28 UTC

Thanks for reporting this.
For future reference, please do not set priority to High.

Currently just typing on the Desktop will start searching for Contacts, no
Control+F needed.

Implementing a system wide search is quite complex I guess and it's unclear to
me what would be covered - file names, file contents, everything?



The scope of bugs.maemo.org are bugs and only very specific and no-brainer
enhancement requests. This report contains a feature request that is too
generic for bugs.maemo.org. Please post this problem and propose your
solution in Maemo Brainstorm instead:
  http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/

More information: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_brainstorm

Comment 2 redex 2009-12-07 15:16:47 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 Amer Saeed 2009-12-29 00:03:22 UTC

I switched to N900 from my E90 and the In-device search feature was an awesome
utility that helped me find keywords in Contacts, Notes, Files, Tasks etc. With
this feature not available in N900, I'm not sure if this was really an upgrade
or a downgrade.  Please do let me know when an application for In-Device or
Universal search will be developed for it.

Comment 4 Andrei 2010-01-04 15:54:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I switched to N900 from my E90 and the In-device search feature was an awesome
> utility that helped me find keywords in Contacts, Notes, Files, Tasks etc. With
> this feature not available in N900, I'm not sure if this was really an upgrade
> or a downgrade.  Please do let me know when an application for In-Device or
> Universal search will be developed for it.

Could you create brainstorm for this otherwise nobody will care.