Catfish.

[Sergio Cipolla]

On 8 December 2012 13:32, Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:19:28 -0200
> Sergio Cipolla <secipolla at gmail.com> 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