[Thunar-dev] Feature request (let's search more quickilytickily)

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:47:08 +0300, Anssi Kaariainen wrote:

> Aaron Fineman wrote:
>> btw, something i just noticed in itunes, if you start typing text in
>> the search bar, it does a search on the fly and narrows down the files
>> being shown to just what matches your search pattern. interesting idea
>> if you can impliment it without a hell of a lot of cpu usage.
> I have been thinking to take this one step further. I would like to have 
> search boxes for every field in Thunar. Something like this:
> 
> Name                   Size              Type           Date Modified...
> | *uturama*  & *S4*    |                 |Video         | >1-1-2000
> 
> These filters would only modify the shown files, not the selection. With 
> the above filters you would only see Futurama season 4 files of type 
> video and modified after year 2000. After that you could sort the shown 
> files by size and so on.
> 
> The only small problem is that I don't know almost anything about 
> programming and even less about Thunar. The good thing is that this 
> summer I have plenty of time. Would it be possible to implement this, 
> perhaps as a plug-in? And would anybody actually use these filter boxes?

Not me. It took me half a month to implement it (in my little file
manager prototype), too. 
Just to find that it isn't at all useful after all. 
Rather in the way, mostly.

And I _hope_ that everone knows by now that having more than one entry to
search things is BAD (if you do it, use _one_ entry that matches when
something is found in either name, size _or_ type).

Multiple fields really only are sane in complex search dialogs (note:
"dialog" is the signal word here :)).

But don't let that stop you.

cheers,
  Danny