Catfish

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Catfish
Software Details:
Version: 1.4.6 updated
Upload Date: 17 Aug 18
Developer: Christian Dywan
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 49

Rating: 1.5/5 (Total Votes: 2)

Catfish is an open source, free and handy graphical application designed in GTK+ to provide GNU/Linux users with a capable file search utility that helps theme to locate their files on the local file system.

Supports locate, slocate and beagle search engines

It is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for different file searching backends, which are intractable, configurable only via the command-line interface. Catfish is known to support popular search engines, such as locate, slocate, tracker or beagle.

Its user interface is designed to be simple and lightweight, and the configuration options for each backend are taken directly from the command-line options of the respective search engine. It works well with all GNU/Linux operating systems.

Designed for GNOME

The application’s GUI is modern, as it follows GNOME’s HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) specifications. While it is designed for the GNOME desktop environment, Catfish can also be used on other open source desktop environments or window managers, such as MATE or Cinnamon.

The main toolbar includes all the tools you need to locate your files, such as a drop-down menu from where you can choose where to search files, the search box, two view modes (Compact List and Thumbnails), and the app’s menu, from where you can enable full text search, exact match search, and display of hidden files.

While the software doesn’t come with a settings dialog, it will provide some advanced options on a sidebar, on the left of the window. The sidebar can be enabled from the app’s menu, by clicking on the “Show Advanced Settings” entry or by hitting the F9 key on your keyboard.

Search by file type (images, music, videos, applications, documents)

The advanced settings sidebar will allow user to organize search results by modification date (any time, this week or custom), as well as to let them search by file type. This means that you can search only images, videos, music, documents or applications.

What is new in this release:

  • IMPROVED THUMBNAILER:
  • Improved error handling
  • Proper permissions for thumbnail directories and files
  • Logging of failed thumbnail generation
  • Saving of thumbnail file attributes
  • Support for relative thumbnail directories
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Added inode/directory mimetype to desktop entry (Xfce #14505)
  • Disabled overlay scrollbars to improve interacting with the results list (Xfce #14487)
  • Enabled launching of executable AppImage files (Xfce #14500)
  • Fixed invalid date in appdata (Xfce #14502)
  • Replaced stock icons with standard Mime Type icons (Xfce #14503)
  • Improved handling of exceptions when parsing settings (Xfce #14491)
  • Improved handling of UnicodeDecodeErrors (Xfce #14490)
  • Improved handling of PermissionErrors (Xfce #14488)
  • Improved support for hidden files (Xfce #14497)
  • Remember window size and position between sessions (Xfce #14504)
  • Xfce: Open directories with the preferred file manager (Xfce #14483)
  • TRANSLATION UPDATES:
  • Albanian, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian

What is new in version 1.4.2:

  • Fix typo in CatfishWindow.py (LP: #1372166)
  • Fix right-click activating previous item (LP: #1372165)
  • Updated translations.

What is new in version 1.2.2:

  • Fix typo in CatfishWindow.py (LP: #1372166)
  • Fix right-click activating previous item (LP: #1372165)
  • Updated translations.

What is new in version 1.0.0:

  • Interface refresh, mimicking common gnome applications.
  • Fix executable-not-elf-or-script when debian packaging
  • Use "use_underline" property for SaveAs and Delete in popup menu
  • Fix "--thumbnail" startup option (lp: #1230245)
  • Remove embedded copy of pexpect (lp: #1257500)
  • Fix image loading issues, use icon names available in gnome-icon-theme (lp: #1258713)
  • Fix untranslatable strings (lp: #1261181)
  • Fix sidebar width (lp: #1261185)
  • Fix sidebar coloration (lp: #1261185)
  • Fix searching mounted shares (lp: 1274378)

What is new in version 0.8.2:

  • Fix LP: #1228440 - warning at startup: PyGIDeprecationWarning: threads_init no longer needs to be called
  • Add fallback icons for all symbolic icons.

Requirements:

  • GTK+
  • PyGTK
  • Glade
  • python-xdg (optional)

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