recursive directory indexing feature request

[Denis Prost]

It would be great if one could chose an indexing depth for each directory that is choosen in kupfer preferences dialog main tab. The main purpose - to me - is to quickly open any subdirectory in nautilus, just typing a few letters of its name, like the gnome-do FilesAndFolders plugin does. That is very useful when working with hundreds of directories at a depth that can be as high as 5 or 6.

[X (u78qir8a9-deactivatedaccount)]

This can also be implemented in a plugin, so anyone is welcome to step up to do it.

[Denis Prost (denis-prost)]

Thanks Ulrik,
I don't have myself the skills to implement it, I hope someone will have time and knowledge to do it.
Regards,
Denis

[X (u78qir8a9-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes. I think most of the concern are about side-issues, like how to make a good interface for it and how to make sure not too many files are added to Kupfer (it's not designed for a monster-big index).

[Denis Prost (denis-prost)]

Gnome-do FilesAndFolders plug-in just has a two columns config dialog : folder and depth. I used it many times, it's simple and efficient.
As for the number of indexed files/folders, gnome-do warns if there are more than 3000 ones and stops indexing beyond (as far as I remember), letting the user chose to disable that control, at its own risk, through gconf-editor (but it should better be in the plugin config dialog)... Maybe something like that could be implemented, with the improvement of letting the user chose what limit he wants to set, kupfer only mentioning a recommended value ?

[sojusnik (sojusnik)]

+ signed

[Dave (muellerdave)]

oh yeah! already kinda requested this. hope someone with the skillset implements this! PLEASE!

[ledom (sebastien-domeny)]

really important feature I think

[k (kasi-u)]

+1

This missing feature is still having me consider gnome-do or synapse. I like kupfer more (plugins, no mono, better interface than synapse), but this missing feature is a pain.

[belovedmonster (jd-hartland)]

Please someone make this already. Having a good file search is the one feature I miss on XFCE and LXDE. I don't want to use something super heavy like Unity just so I can get all my important files easily indexed. If Kupfer did this then I'd be over the moon.

[sircrow (sircrow)]

+1

That would be a very nice feature!
Missing it also!

[Karol Będkowski (karol-bedkowski)]

Very simple plugin for recursive index directories:
https://raw.github.com/KarolBedkowski/kupfer-contrib/master/plugins/deepdirectories.py

Put it into ~/.local/share/kupfer/plugins, restart Kupfer, configure plugin "Deep Directories".

Works for me, but may be buggy.

[sircrow (sircrow)]

Thanks a lot Karol, I will give it a shot!

[Denis Prost (denis-prost)]

I tried it, it works fine, thanks !

[Jan-Christian (jchtt)]

The plugin provided works great, thank you! Will it be possible to see it in the official version, maybe with an option to specify the search depth independently for each folder?