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William Unruh (unruh@physics.ubc.ca) wrote:
: In <4fm2e5$s9t@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> peter@fourier.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:

: >There's a similar shortcoming in the desktop "Find" option.
: >It will find things for you (after a long time delay), but it
: >won't tell you where it found them.  It's a nuisance having to
: >open the Settings notebook for a found object, for no other
: >reason than to look up the file name.

: Make an icon for the Seek and Scan (in OS2->Productivity). It will give
: the whole path. Put it on your desktop and use it instead of that
: useless thing in the Directory menus.

You're a bit unfair. While it would be nice to be able to customize
that find thing to show more about the objects found (icon, details,
icon w full names + size ...) it is very useful and fast to work with:
As longas I have only one copy of an object on the system I don't need to
know where it is, once it is found: I can double click on it, or drag and
drop it onto whatever. Very fast, w/o being bothered where it is.

If there are two copies in different folders (directories) I am forced to
open the settings, to see which one to use. So, that could be improved, but
it is by no means useles. It is probably harder for people like me (and I
assume, you) who grew up with command lines, path names, and the like, to
naturally and fully exploit the object oriented power of the WPS. My
computer-illiterate sister amazes me sometimes in how she uses the WPS.
It says find, so it finds right? Found? Fine. Double click, edit the essay,
save, forget until next time. I guess that's the intention.

Stefan

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