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Add file indexing and finding (through menu) to Cinnamon. #9181

Open Draconicrose opened 4 years ago

Draconicrose commented 4 years ago

This is a feature request.

I love Linux Mint and Cinnamon, but in every installation I have to basically replace the menu functionality with another application, like Albert, so I can have the functionality I need and that other desktop environments have implemented.

Basically, I would like to have (optional?) file indexing, so that if I search the partial name of a file it would come up in the menu for quick-launching with the appropriate app. Currently, Cinnamon only remembers the recently accessed files.

Here's an example of the kind of results I would like to have show up: image

cassepipe commented 3 years ago

It would be really great to see this. I wonder if it is not the case for performance reasons. If that is the case, we could imagine a compromise : When you enter a file path in the menu and press enter, that location is opened in Nemo. It could even have an autocomplete feature when pressing tab just like a shell. If not an absolute path, it could be relative to the home directory by default.

EDIT : It is actually possible to do just that. You just need to right-click on the menu applet -> Configure... -> "Menu" tab -> "Enable filesystem path in search box" under the "behavior" section. It even defaults on the home folder for relative path. No tab completion of any kind though.

Draconicrose commented 3 years ago

Right now I'm using Synapse, which uses the Zeitgeist engine to do its thing and honestly I see absolutely no performance loss or anything. It's pretty fast and snappy.