PPC
@BobC – I tested lots of file search apps, to see if any should be included in FT10… I came to this conclusions:
– to perform simple file searches by name, in the home folder, zzzfm find option does the job- change it’s .desktop file to include the home folder:
zzzfm --find-files ~
– The overall simplest to use, better localized and fastest app to search files by file name is FSearch – the dev even included my suggestion and added the possibility to search for, and then run, .desktop files, converting it into a kind of very basic app launcher (it does not search inside the .desktop files, so, no search by app description)
– Drill is very close to Fsearch, in what concerns ease of use and speed- by default it also acts like a simple app launcher
– Searchmonkey – it seems unmaintained, but then again, my only real complaint is lack of localization- it’s the only one of these apps that also searches inside files- .txt, .odt, pdf’s…- it’s a very useful feature. If used with a SSD drive, the lack of index is hardly noticed, if searching only inside the home folder (considering that it does not have a huge number of files to search- for example, combining the file name and word to search inside the file provides very fast results- ex: Search files “.pdf”, containing “Curriculum” will very quickly find your C.V. …)
– Using a “locate” rofi script – it’s insanely fast an runs very fast on few resources- I used that option for a while in the first FT10 versions- it’s very basic, but does the job of searching files by name in your home folder (or any other folder that you point the script to- I used it to find icons all the time).
P.