Idea #4372: GUI for Locate

Written by spacejesus the 12 Mar 08 at 15:46. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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It would be great to have a GUI for the locate command. THis is a very powerful tool and I think it is essential to have a search function which indexes only file names and attributes. I never need to use a desktop search engine to find content but I'm always using locate. The important thing is to be able to easily pipe results to a filemanager so I can manipulate files (copy,cut,paste,rename etc). The locate plugin in krusader does this, but it would be great to have this functionality native to Ubuntu. The one application I have missed since moving from xp is Locate32, which revolutionized my computer use. As the author of locate32 based his program on locate for unix I think we should have a similar front-end for Ubuntu.

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peterjs wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 19:50

Don't know about KDE...

But in gnome the Places > search for files... option is just a front end for locate. Does this count as already implemented?

spacejesus wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 16:34

Yeah,you're right, I thought that was a front-end for tracker. It's not too bad, but you don't have the ability to manipulate the files other than open, open folder and delete. Also it seems to miss a lot of files that locate cli finds...

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