[Bug 51908] Nautilus default search behavior should be to search current folder

[Joseph Garvin]

Public bug reported:

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.

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Nautilus default search behavior should be to search current folder
https://launchpad.net/bugs/51908