User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2 Build Identifier: Feature request: to add a small textbox somewhere in the program that filters all displayed items by displaying only those items which names contain the string specified in the filter. Reproducible: Always
Konqueror, afair, does something really simple and nifty, you can type in the address bar (accessible in any view with Ctrl-L in Thunar) a regexp after the directory, e.g.: /home/mike/*.txt. If I remember very good, the regexp is enclosed with brakets [] like /home/mike/[*.txt]. This avoids to overload the UI with a supplement text entry. How about using the address bar from Thunar to filter a view?
Hm, not really user friendly. Atleast not really obvious. Dunno. Maybe ask on the ML for opinions.
Moving to 1.0.0final.
Tracker (sometimes called metatracker) could probably be used for this. Filtering is just searching within constraints. It could also find matching files in subdirectories. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker
A filter integrated into the address bar would be nice. I'd suggest a menu item/ dialog additionally so that anyone can use it and see how it works.
I'm using thunar 1.0.0. Is file filtering implemented in this release ? I saw de target milestone was 1.0.0final but can't find out how to do it. If it's not, I still think this would be a real improvement to thunar (already great file manager !)
I had say a filter bar just like in Dolphin would just do it. Have a menu item available under "View" just under "Show hidden files" (to me that is the best place) and with a GTK+ accelerator (e.g. Ctrl+I). Activating it shows a new bar at the bottom and entering for example "m3u" shows only the playlist file in the view. (In reply to comment #5) > A filter integrated into the address bar would be nice. Imho that will be confusing, looking like a hacky tricky thing. The address bar is where you type the location, not the files you had like to display in the view. And then you can have the address bar (toolbar mode) and a more simple location bar.
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The target milestone was 1.2.0, current version of Thunar in Debian Jessie is 1.6.3. Any news on this feature? There's also a Bounty on it: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3547153-add-konqueror-like-filter-feature
Thanks for pointing to that bounty, I contributed to it, but till now, it looks like I'm the only one who is ready to (or can) pay for that - so useful - feature...
I just swiched to thunar and this would be so nice.. PCManFM has it under ctrl+e. I am not a GTK developer by any streach but I see all the important pieces of core are already there. I mean: - Textbox for the pattern could be copied from 'ctrl+F' search - To get the list of files use 'select by pattern' code (ctrl+S) - Invert the selection to get not wamted files - Use mechanism similar to hiding files starting with '.' to filter them. I would love to hear from someone who actuall knows the codebase and find out if this functionality is actually hard to implement.
I've done the implementation and it's working so far… unfortunately Thunar enhance is frozen until gtk3 port is done. I'm trying to do it right now and hopefully port my patch in gtk3 right after it. Probably available in a couple of weeks (at least for review). Sorry if it looks like a teaser…
(In reply to Cyrille Pontvieux from comment #13) > I've done the implementation and it's working so far… unfortunately Thunar > enhance is frozen until gtk3 port is done. I'm trying to do it right now and > hopefully port my patch in gtk3 right after it. Probably available in a > couple of weeks (at least for review). > > Sorry if it looks like a teaser… Gtk3 port is finished, so if you are still interested in porting your feature to the current thunar master, that would be very welcome ! If you dont ahve time/interest any more, it would be great if you could drop a patch for the old thunar, or a link to your repo, so that someone else can do the port.
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