[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15409] Making Thunar search more user-friendly

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15409

Karolis Martinkus <reklamukibiras at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Karolis Martinkus <reklamukibiras at gmail.com> ---
I think it would be better to implement this as a new thunar plugin, same way
it is with thunar-achive-plugin, thunar-media-tags-plugin and others. I'd call
it thunar-search-plugin. Motivation for this is because I think this adds up
some complexity in several places (not that I would be familiar with the code
itself, sadly), but also - maybe not all users may want this, especially those
"minimal install" fans, including me.

I can see thunar getting a UI upgrade by installing this plugin, example - a
search field always sitting in the top, right of the location bar, and an extra
tab in the settings dialog. Thunar should also be able to display files sitting
in multiple directories (results of the search), as opposed to working always
only on current working directory.

I believe this search should happen from current directory going in recursively
(optionally including hidden files/folders). For starters - it could look at
only filenames. For example, I currently have this in my bash profile: `alias
findhere='find . | grep -i'` - works for me, somehow I find it faster than
`find . -iname "*$1*"`, but it returns what I suspect should be the most basic
minimal goal of this feature. Adding more advanced search later on (full text
search, picture file metadata, pdf authors, ...).

Thunar has it's own versioning, but I guess this should be targeted together
with xfce 4.16 or whatever the next installment will be called.

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