File -> Find in this folder: add shortcut: Ctrl+f

[DarkTrick]

Suggestion regarding the "Find in this folder"-custom action to improve UX for the thunar package.

Current situation
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File -> "Find in this folder" has no shortcut by default.

Suggested
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Add shortcut: Ctrl+F

Reasons:
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Which file manager would not have a search shortcut ( for me this is so natural, that I can't come up with any better explanation )

Misc:
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`Ctrl+f` will interfere with thunar's default `Ctrl+f` shortcut, which would open the GTK treeview search box. I want to emphasize, that this feature is no a search in the way the general user nowadays would expect. Therefore I see no problem replacing thunar's default Ctrl+f with the one opening catfish.

lsb_release -rd
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Description: Ubuntu 20.10
Release: 20.10

policykit
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thunar:
  Installed: 1.8.15-1
  Candidate: 1.8.15-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.15-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: thunar 1.8.15-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-30.32-generic 5.8.17
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Nov 30 18:15:39 2020
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 linux-image-5.8.0-31-generic
 linux-base
SourcePackage: thunar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[DarkTrick (darktrick1337)]

Related file: https://git.launchpad.net/xubuntu-default-settings/tree/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/Thunar/accels.scm

[Paul Flaherty (paulstechtips)]

when using control +F on Gnome using thunar i do see a search box it could be an issue with the keyboard shortcut mapping in the Desktop Environment. I tested this on a fresh install of 20.04 LTS version of Ubuntu Linux OS.

[Paul Flaherty (paulstechtips)]

when using control f in XFCE when using thunar i can search files correctly is CTRL-F incorrectly mapped as a keyboard shortcut?

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Thank you for submitting this proposal.

Xubuntu 22.10 includes Thunar 4.17.9. This version has a new embedded search interface that works better than sending the user to Catfish. Marking as Won't Fix.