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Want to do some enhancements on the catfish.



Hi all,

AFAIK, mlocate is the most fast filename-based search tool for *nix; OTOH, catfish can be set as its GUI.

The source for catfish can be got here:

http://www.twotoasts.de/media/catfish/catfish-0.3.2.tar.gz

But, in the current version of catfish, it has several shortcomings from my points of view:

1- It uses find as the default backend search method.
2- Its default search folder is catfish, which is not the case for most of us. I think the "File System" should be set the default search folder. 3- In my case, I use gnome with Debian squeeze, when I want to open the folders in the searched results panel, the catfish always give me the errors like this:

Error: Could not open the file /path/to/the/folder.

The tool is written in python, and the main program is the catfish.py included in its source tar.gz. I've tried for a while to do the trick but failed to get the results that I described above.

Could someone please do these enhancements or give me some hints on the revision tips for its source to obtain meet my above requirements? Thanks in advance.


Regards.
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Hongyi Zhao<hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences
GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493


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