A couple of big features for Thunar

  Welcome to my first post-GSoC blogpost. Google Summer of Code might have ended but I’m continuing my daily work on Thunar and Xfce Terminal (more on that later). This blog-post is accompanied by a video that showcases what is written here.

Recursive Search

  I’m happy to inform you that my work on implementing a performant recursive-search in Thunar has been met with success. Users will be able to recursively search their filesystem (including remote folders and
other special locations like Recent and Trash) and sort the results like they would in any folder.

Presently, searching is depth limited but in the final version you will be able to select a custom depth or no depth at all, to make sure that this is useful even for older machines and at the same time makes use of the resources of faster systems. As this is a work in progress there are some
bugs and crashes but it looks like the big issues have been solved at last. You can see for yourself at: link.

Shared Thumbnail Repositories

  Additionally, I wanted to give users the option to create shared thumbnail repositories from within Thunar. That’s why I’ve been working on creating a script to create Shared Thumbnail Repositories using any thumbnailer that implements the D-Bus thumbnailing spec (tumbler being an example of such a thumbnailer). You will be able to use this
script from Thunar through a custom action.

Xfce Terminal

  Lastly, I wanted to let you know that I’ve become the maintainer of xfce4-terminal. I’ve been working on resolving old issues, fixing bugs and merging MRs that have been sitting stagnant for months.
I’ve got a lot of exciting things to show you on that front, so stay tuned.

Previous post