Bug#507737: gnome-search-tool: please ignore (big) binary files

[Luís Picciochi Oliveira]

Package: gnome-utils
Version: 2.20.0.1-3
Severity: important

  When searching for files that contain a given text, gnome-search-tool 
should ignore binary files.
  Looking inside binary files can have a big impact on how long a search 
takes when the (sub-)directories have huge binary files - a lot of time 
is spent looking for text in those files, sometimes possibly even 
giving them as as results, when this time should not be spent grepping 
them.

  I'm not sure if this should be an importat or wishlist bug, but under 
certain circumstances the search might get extremely slow, making the 
user get frustrated and quit the search.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-utils depends on:
ii  e2fslibs               1.41.3-1          ext2 filesystem libraries
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6.1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.22.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0     2.18.5-1          The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0   2.18.3-1          GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7             2.22.3-1          gtop system monitoring library
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.20.3-5          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1             library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-render-util0    0.2.1+git1-1      utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0         1.1-1.1           X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1                1.1-1.1           X C Binding
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper           0.3.14-16         A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-utils recommends:
ii  gksu                          2.0.0-6    graphical frontend to su

Versions of packages gnome-utils suggests:
ii  gcalctool                    5.22.3-2    A GTK2 desktop calculator
ii  yelp                         2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2

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