nautilus search function

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, December 17, 2012 8:55 am, Scott Lavender wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried the search function in nautilus/files in 13.04? I don't
>> seem to be able to find anything with it... even things I know are
>> there.

> i haven't tested any search on 13.04 yet, but it was catfish that was the
> file finder previously.
>
Well two things... The search function in Nautilus seems to have been
dumbed down. It does about the same as thunar does if you start typing a
file name (not quite). It is not a good search utility. Ubuntustudio now
needs a search utility. For the terminal we already have mlocate which
also calls it self locate. As an aside, this is another of those things
that runs itself via cron once a day that may be the reason for an odd
xrun... one more reason to turn cron off while recording...

Anyway, there seems to be two GUIs for searching, catfish and
gnome-search-tool. catfish was part of UStudio in 11.10 and is the tool of
choice in Xubuntu. However, I installed it in studio 13.04 and it doesn't
run. I have asked for help in #xubuntu-devel and they are looking into it
as it would effect them too (they need to test it in their own ISO). In
other words, I think it would be ready for release. Gnome-search-tool
works fine and seems to do what nautilus used to do.

Nautilus: has changed, now called "files" and the GUI is a lot like
chromium. Nautilus now seems to offer a lot less than in the past and
there is a learning curve as the top menu bar is gone.

Thunar: I have been using Thunar as my default file manager on the 13.04
machine (test bed) and have not had any crashes. I have done things that
always crashed it before without problem. There has not been anything
Thunar wouldn't do for me that I could still do with nautilus.

I would like to see some more people try out the daily ISO and report
their findings on these two file managers. Perhaps we can now drop
nautilus.

Deciding on a search utility should wait till catfish is fixed.

Len


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