Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)

Re:Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) by julianlam on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:37PM (#31030340)

Sure, and so why not put that recursive search behind ctrl-p? I'd certainly use it.

But as someone who has grown up with computers, it's quite aggravating to not be able to "pu<enter>src<enter>mod<enter>vi<enter>in"

Sure, it's more intuitive to do that in the terminal, but sometimes being able to quickly drill down and THEN be able to inspect the folder visually, is very helpful.

... to access public/src/modules/views/index.js

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Re:Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) by Spivak on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:14PM (#31030975)

I think my main issue is that GNOME's search is dog slow. If Nautilus had the speed of FZF I don't think you would miss it but I'm open to being wrong. You would just type pusrmovi<enter> to jump to the folder or just viind<enter> to go to the file.

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Re:Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) by julianlam on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:46PM (#31032337)

Ah, interesting... yes, the search is indeed dog-slow. If it's a filename match, it comes up fairly quickly because it's been indexed, but if I pass in a path, or parts of one, then it doesn't come up with anything at all.

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