[ubuntu-uk] Missing features in 12.10

Bruno Girin brunogirin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 13:43:21 UTC 2012


On 12/11/12 12:22, keith wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:57 +0000, Gareth France wrote:
>>> Looks like gnome-nettool moved to universe, so that's why it's not 
>>> installed by default. Dunno why it moved though, probably lack of 
>>> upstream support?
>>>
>>> What "search" are you talking about?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>> I'm surprised nobody seems to understand about the search. I'm talking 
>> about the gnome 2 file search application. If you type search into the 
>> dash it's still there. And extremely useful when doing advanced searches.
>>
> Hello All
>
> The icon is a magnifying glass, at least in the Gnome Ubuntu Remix 12.10
> which I'm using at the moment out of curiosity. I've got it pinned to
> the favourites. Very useful.

It's gnome-search-tool, which is now also in universe, same as
gnome-nettool, which would explain why it's no longer installed by
default. As Popey said above, I don't why it moved to universe but a
lack of support from upstream is quite likely if they are GNOME 2 tools.

Bruno



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