Hi, On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:47:08 +0300, Anssi Kaariainen wrote:
> Aaron Fineman 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? Not me. It took me half a month to implement it (in my little file manager prototype), too. Just to find that it isn't at all useful after all. Rather in the way, mostly. And I _hope_ that everone knows by now that having more than one entry to search things is BAD (if you do it, use _one_ entry that matches when something is found in either name, size _or_ type). Multiple fields really only are sane in complex search dialogs (note: "dialog" is the signal word here :)). But don't let that stop you. cheers, Danny _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
