[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

Ori Bernstein rand_chars at rogers.com
Tue Jan 31 04:22:09 CET 2006


On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:55:14 +0100, Benedikt Meurer
<benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> said:

> > 3/ What do you think of implementing something like 'find as you type' 
> > like in Firefox ? This could be very useful to quickly find a file or a 
> > folder.
> 
> The detailed list view already support this. ExoIconView/ThunarIconView
> support is on the way (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359).

Personally, the biggest annoyance with Thunar is this support -- I think it
should at least search for substrings, if not match regexes.

I think matching regexes would be the best option -- it can be treated as a
simple substring search, but it can also (surprise) handle searching by regex.

Often when looking for a file, I remember a part of the name, but this part
doesn't always start at the 0th character, so this would be a useful feature
for me.

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