Re: RFC: On-line Content Filtering of directories

[Alberto Ruiz <arc gulic org>]

El mié, 20-04-2005 a las 00:04 +0200, Diego Gonzalez escribió:
> Hi
> 
> I have implemented a new feature for Nautilus, it is a way to filter
> the contents of a directory, right now it only works when Nautilus is
> in spatial mode. If there is interest in it, it can easily be extended
> to work on navigational windows.
> 
Wow, I would like to see that for future releases of nautilus, sounds
very useful.

> I have created this feature to overcome a problem that i'm having as a
> consequence of using the spatial mode: when i started to use the
> spatial mode, i found it incredible anoying to have deep hierarchies
> of directories, as a consecuence i reduced them, this meant in many
> cases that i got directories with a lot of files, and altough i have
> long meaningful names for many of them it is quite hard to find a file
> in there. This patch allows me to quickly search the contents of a
> directory for files that match the string entered.
> 
> A more complete description with the patch proposed and screenshots
> can be found at:
> http://www.es.gnome.org/~diego/index.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Diego
> 
> PD: An extension of this feature could be used to rework the regular
> expresion selection (Ctrl+S), as i think that this feature is more
> visible and also easier to used by common desktop users that do not
> understand how regular expressions work.
> 
> 
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz