Catfish.

[Sergio Cipolla]

I don't use Catfish in my installed system.
I'm trying the TC1 live-CD and Catfish looks very poor like one can't
even search for text within files. Well, almost, as there is a grayed
out 'Fulltext search' option.
Is it missing some dependency?

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:19:28 -0200
Sergio Cipolla  wrote:
> I don't use Catfish in my installed system.
> I'm trying the TC1 live-CD and Catfish looks very poor like one can't
> even search for text within files. Well, almost, as there is a grayed
> out 'Fulltext search' option.
> Is it missing some dependency?

On mine, I have to go down to "Search methods" and click find. Then I
can change it to "locate" and "fulltext search" turns on. Not sure that
will actually search inside files, though.

[Sergio Cipolla]

On 8 December 2012 13:32, Charlie Kravetz  wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:19:28 -0200
> Sergio Cipolla  wrote:
> > I don't use Catfish in my installed system.
> > I'm trying the TC1 live-CD and Catfish looks very poor like one can't
> > even search for text within files. Well, almost, as there is a grayed
> > out 'Fulltext search' option.
> > Is it missing some dependency?
>
> On mine, I have to go down to "Search methods" and click find. Then I
> can change it to "locate" and "fulltext search" turns on. Not sure that
> will actually search inside files, though.

Ah, OK. So it doesn't use grep.

Nowadays I mostly use find/grep from the command-line as I think I can
use them now (it took long enough for me to get used to the quotes
etc.).
First search tool I was introduced to was Searchmonkey. It was pretty
good and newbie friendly.
Then I switched to gnome-search-tool. That's a very good example of a
GUI search tool.
Unfortunately upstream started breaking it little-by-little outside GNOME.
Not that it can't work, it just doesn't want to.
First they broke opening folders from the results¹ and now it doesn't
even start-up without nautilus installed². File-roller used to have
similar issues, the dev quickly fixed them and it's a great
cross-desktop archiver.

So I have mate-search-tool which is gnome-search-tool 2.32, basically.
But currently it comes bundled in the mate-utils package.

¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812495
² https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874762

[Miro Hrončok]

It wont,
catfish is just a frntent to several searchnig tools, like find or locate.

You can use others backends and search inside files.

Such as Zeitgeist / Beagle / Tracker / Strigi.

Miro Hrončok

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2012/12/8 Charlie Kravetz :
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:19:28 -0200
> Sergio Cipolla  wrote:
> > I don't use Catfish in my installed system.
> > I'm trying the TC1 live-CD and Catfish looks very poor like one can't
> > even search for text within files. Well, almost, as there is a grayed
> > out 'Fulltext search' option.
> > Is it missing some dependency?
>
> On mine, I have to go down to "Search methods" and click find. Then I
> can change it to "locate" and "fulltext search" turns on. Not sure that
> will actually search inside files, though.
>
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> Charlie Kravetz
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[Sergio Cipolla]

On 8 December 2012 13:46, Miro Hrončok  wrote:
> It wont,
> catfish is just a frntent to several searchnig tools, like find or locate.
>
> You can use others backends and search inside files.
>
> Such as Zeitgeist / Beagle / Tracker / Strigi.
>
> Miro Hrončok

Yes, I don't have them installed (and I removed tracker when it came
with the F17 Xfce spin). But I may try zeitgeist and see if it's worth
to have it installed or not. There's a light GUI app that uses it, I
forgot the name now (searching with repoquery...failed).

yum search for search tools give some first-timers for me like recoll
(Qt) and regexxer.