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cboxdoerfer / fsearch

A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
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Allowing to open .desktop files from search results #313

Closed PPC-scripts closed 2 years ago

PPC-scripts commented 2 years ago

I love fsearch (I consider it and Drill the best file searcher apps available under Linux), but, with little effort, fsearch can also be used as a simple application launcher- if one add /usr/share/applications to the folder's list- fsearch does display the .desktop matching the query (ex: Brave) but it's unable to start that application from the search result (it's opened as a text file)- you can run the executable refereed inside the .desktop file using something like " awk -F= '/Exec=/{system($2)}' [path/to/desktop_file]" Very nice job!

cboxdoerfer commented 2 years ago

Thx for the suggestion. I'll add that to my todo list. I will probably add an option to specify if desktop files should be treated like apps or regular files.

As for how they can be launched, thankfully the GIO library handles that (documentation) and it also honors fields like Terminal= in the desktop file, so this should probably be the way to implement this feature.

cboxdoerfer commented 2 years ago

@PPC-scripts, I've now added that option - it's enabled by default. I've also added a filter to only show desktop files.

PPC-scripts commented 2 years ago

hi, Christian

I compiled and tested fsearch- it works great! The only down side to this feature is that there a bit more for me to localize :-) I've been using fsearch for a couple of months now and I want to let you know- I'm an antiX Linux user/contributor (it's a tiny debian based distro, specialized in running in old devices) and I've been developing an alternative User Interface that uses tint2 as toolbar and jgmenu as menu- it takes the best features from KDE, Windows 10, Windows 11 and mixes them into a (what I hope) is a very good user experiece, running on about 100mb of Idle RAM. I'm trying to figure out if I should add a compiller for fsearch into my installer, insuring that it can be used as default file searcher in this UI, because fsearch is not yet on the antiX repository If you want to check out my project it's over at https://gitlab.com/antix-contribs/ft10-transformation

Best regards,

P.

Christian Boxdörfer @.***> escreveu no dia domingo, 12/12/2021 à(s) 11:47:

@PPC-scripts https://github.com/PPC-scripts, I've now added that option

  • it's enabled by default. I've also added a filter to only show desktop files.

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