Diego Gonzalez wrote: > I have implemented a new feature for Nautilus, it is a way to filter the > contents of a directory, right now it only works when Nautilus is in > spatial mode. If there is interest in it, it can easily be extended to > work on navigational windows. > > I have created this feature to overcome a problem that i'm having as a > consequence of using the spatial mode: when i started to use the spatial > mode, i found it incredible anoying to have deep hierarchies of > directories, as a consecuence i reduced them, this meant in many cases > that i got directories with a lot of files, and altough i have long > meaningful names for many of them it is quite hard to find a file in > there. This patch allows me to quickly search the contents of a > directory for files that match the string entered.
I've been following this discussion for a while, and stumbled across an idea. A random thought, but there's a chance it may inspire a solution. - Bring files that match the filter to the top of the nautilus window. - Put in two headings: Files matching 'xxx' and Other files. By 'headings' I mean like the old XD2 control center. Or I believe WinXP has headings like this in certain explorer icon views. - Perhaps make all icons in 'other files' translucent. - All files remain selectable. - The filter could even be persistent (fits nicely with spacial) Problems: - Needs refinement to work with list view. - Doesn't work in 'Manually Arranged' mode, but that's a given for any filter. Cheers, Nate -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
