catfish always uses 'locate' to search

[Florian Diesch]

catfish always uses "locate" as search method even if you call it with a '--method'' command line option, like
   catfish --method find

This is caused by the function 'catfish.on_entry_find_text_activate()' calling 'self.find()' without any option in line 1259 of /usr/share/catfish/catfish.py

In line 537 - 551 'catfish.__init__()' contains some code to find the best search method but the result is never used.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: catfish 0.4.0.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 8 20:56:17 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-25 (136 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: catfish
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (112 days ago)

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Thanks for reporting, but catfish no longer uses the --method option and depends explicitly on locate. To move forward with this bug report, please test the latest version of Catfish on Ubuntu Saucy/13.10 and verify it terminates the locate command properly when doing a long search.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for catfish (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[apport hater (g112)]

Actually that's not the case.
Catfish does allow to be installed without locate
and is able to use os.walk (formely find) without any trouble.

Any option to choose preferred backend is thus a good idea to have.

[apport hater (g112)]

Especially annoying in conjunction with
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/catfish/+bug/1482919

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Catfish will no longer fail when locate cannot be found. Resolved with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/catfish/+bug/1482919

There are plans to manually choose search methods from the interface. I'll be incorporated that during the 1.3.x cycle. I'll be releasing 1.3.1 by Wednesday with the above fix.

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Marking as Invalid since the --method feature is no longer available.