File Search

Posted Mar 26, 2024 23:44 UTC (Tue) by larkey (guest, #104463)
Parent article: GNOME 46 puts Flatpaks front and center

> If one wants GNOME to search, say, ~/src, then it's necessary to add ~/src specifically as a search location. Once configured to peek into the proper directories, search works quickly and well, but it's not intuitive to have to specify each subdirectory.

This is /probably/ motivated by lots of /huge/ .-directories. Arguably, those could be ignored by default, but IDK how the UX for that should be designed. In addition, the search directories are the classic XDG user directories which are also those on which the permissions for Flatpaks are designed. As such, the trend goes into having e.g., `~/src` be a subdirectory of `~/Documents`. If you want quick access, you can still add a symlink. I've grouped everything in the top-level XDG dirs and it has improved my home quite a lot.