Summary: | Wish: KIO Slave for Searching | ||
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Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] kio | Reporter: | Dik Takken <kde> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | David Faure <faure> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Dik Takken
2004-07-15 12:23:21 UTC
There is already one kio slave that searches files by using the slocate database. It can be used to quickly find files from any URL input field in KDE: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17201 There are two things that this kio slave does not have: * It can not search in other kio slaves, like ftp, fish. * You need to explicitely invoke it by typing "locate: ..." In stead, this kio slave should be invoked automatically whenever the user types a URL that does not make sense. When the user types "desktop" in any URL input field, it should start a search that contains "/home/user/Desktop" as one of the results. The GNOME project has a find-as-you-type that is *really* quite amazing. It's called "Beagle" and it will find anything, not just files as the 'locate' KIO Slave does. It also finds documents on the internet and can even search on D-BUS... Demo's are here: http://nat.org/demos/ Maybe the GNOME guys could share this little gem with KDE... the filenamesearch:/ ioslave does this. |