User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-3335785-20120513004753/@comment-3335785-20120514001930

That quote would seem to nullify whatever alterations we can come up with for search. It's a shame especially as it's still so broken *looks at namespaces*

I assume this would work like a gadget, so something that cancels out the option and adds a separate tick-box to do the reverse was what I was thinking of.