Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-utils
Ubuntu release: Karmic (9.10)
Package: gnome-utils 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
The gnome-search-tool is a great utility to give the power of
commandline searching to non-techie users. However, what you typically
want to give them is not just the utility, but the search itself.
Therefore, the gnome-search-tool should allow a search query to be saved
and assigned an alias. That way, the end user can just click on the name
and get the results they need without having to construct the search
from scratch every time.
As it turns out, this tool already supports this feature, in a way. The
gnome-search-tool command provides commandline flags for every field in
the user interface. This allows me to create a .desktop file that calls
gnome-search-tool using my prepared query. So all the user interface
needs to do is offer a way to generate a .desktop file from the current
search and prompt the user for a name. The file can be saved to the
desktop and the search can be run by clicking (or double-clicking) on
it.
Here's an example .desktop file that searches for songs less than a
month old.
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/48/search.svg
Name[en_US]=Find New Songs
Exec=gnome-search-tool --path /home/username/Music --regex ".(mp3|ogg)$"
--mtimeless=30 --sortby date --start
Comment[en_US]=Search for songs less than 30 days old
Name=Find New Songs
Comment=Search for songs less than 30 days old
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/48/search.svg
** Affects: gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: gnome-search-tool search
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gnome-search-tool should allow queries to be saved
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502535
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