xfce icon question

[Boris Astardzhiev]

Hello,
Alex,

I set up an environment to test and refactored the code. Now it supports
utf8.
The patch is posted on the bugzilla portal as you requested.
You may have a look. It's against latest HEAD
eec0c9b2ca7227b65184e2840f2c3e99aa8678b3.
I'm posting patch here as well.
Any feedback is welcomed.

Regards

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:38 AM Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
>
> great thanks for the patches !  The patch for git master will be
> suffficient.
>
> Could you please attach it to the bugreport mentioned by Andre Miranda:
>
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11149
>
> .. just to make sure it is not lost.
> Please create your patch with "git format-patch", like that it is simpler
> for us to apply it, and to give credit to the author.
>
> Hope I will find time this weekend to test/review the patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
> Am 13.02.20 um 17:07 schrieb Boris Astardzhiev:
>
> Hello,
>
>> If you are interested in software development, you could check how it is
>> implemented for thunar(or exo?), and try the same for xfdesktop.
>>
> Here's what I did to serve my needs. So far I love it.
> Well, unfortunately key presses only result in matches of icon labels of
> ASCII characters.
> Everything is case insensitive on purpose.
> In the attachment there are two patches. One that I tested is from Xubuntu
> 18.04's XFCE 4.12.3. And one that is against the latest commit in xfce's
> mirror in github: eec0c9b2ca7227b65184e2840f2c3e99aa8678b3
> xfce-4.14.0-100-geec0c9b2. I haven't tested the latter yet but I think it
> should work.
> I'll be glad if someone can make a review. If it is not OK give me some
> feedback and I'll try to fix it.
>
> Regards,
> Boris
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:11 PM Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Boris,
>>
>> afaik xfdesktop does not have such a feature.
>>
>> > Any ideas what to check / edit / fix to have this?
>> If you are interested in software development, you could check how it is
>> implemented for thunar(or exo?), and try the same for xfdesktop.
>>
>> IMO it would be a nice feature. Patches would be very welcome !
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>
>> Am 12.02.20 um 17:27 schrieb Boris Astardzhiev:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a long time user of XFCE. So far it's been perfect - stable, solid,
>> robust just as I demand.
>> It's one thing that I miss and I can't seem to find searching for it on
>> the internet.
>>
>> When I am at the desktop view seeing all my icons (I have many documents
>> and folders) I ask how can I search for icons by name with a keystroke. For
>> example If I continuously press 's' I would like to be shown sequentially
>> icons starting with 's' (case insensitive would be a good option).
>>
>> Any ideas what to check / edit / fix to have this?
>> What I do now is to open Thunar, go to Desktop and press 's' to find what
>> I'm looking for but it would have been easier and more convenient to have
>> this at the desktop view with the icons just pressing the appropriate
>> letter.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Boris
>>
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