What exactly should the search in gnome-shell do?

[Petter Adsen]

On 01/05/17 09:48, Colin Law wrote:
> Is it possible that the files search from the system search only
> searches particular folders?  I ask this as it seems that it finds
> files in Documents but possibly not in other folders under my Home.
> 
> I have checked in System Settings > Search and both Files and
> Documents are enabled.

I *think* this is indexed by the 'tracker' service, see the
'tracker-gui' package for a way to set preferences.

(I don't use GNOME though, so this is just from vague memory.)

Petter