Anssi Kaariainen wrote: >>btw, something i just noticed in itunes, if you start typing text in >>the search bar, it does a search on the fly and narrows down the files >>being shown to just what matches your search pattern. interesting idea >>if you can impliment it without a hell of a lot of cpu usage. > > I have been thinking to take this one step further. I would like to have > search boxes for every field in Thunar. Something like this: > > Name Size Type Date Modified... > | *uturama* & *S4* | |Video | >1-1-2000 > > These filters would only modify the shown files, not the selection. With > the above filters you would only see Futurama season 4 files of type > video and modified after year 2000. After that you could sort the shown > files by size and so on. > > The only small problem is that I don't know almost anything about > programming and even less about Thunar. The good thing is that this > summer I have plenty of time. Would it be possible to implement this, > perhaps as a plug-in? And would anybody actually use these filter boxes?
Yep, something like a "Filter Files" feature would be nice, which is displayed as an entry and a file type selector below the file listing and filters the displayed files. That shouldn't be too difficult. You could start by filing a feature request. > Anssi Kaariainen Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
