Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
Krusader file manager has a search functionality with a "locate" backend, rather than Baloo or other stuff
Posted 04-08-2021 at 01:26 AM by the dsc
Krusader is a midnight-commander-like QT file manager, more fully-featured/Swiss-army-knife than Dolphin, sort of like the KDE3 Konqueror, but with only a single layout profile, I think, unlike Konqueror, which could be toggled from a Krusader-like GUI to something like Dolphin or simpler, besides a PDF reader or a image viewer like Geeqie. How I miss it.
Anyway, if you want to search something with locate and create dozens of symlinks in a single folder for more careful inspection of each file, but you don't have or want Baloo, theoretically you could use locate and "pipe" its result into some one-liner that would create the symlinks somewhere, with all the if-thens necessary to not overwrite anything. Or, you can install Krusader, which has an integrated search using "locate" (or mlocate). Then it should or could be just a matter of selecting the results, dragging and dropping into a given folder, and then a context menu will pop-up (unless one has it configured to do some other default action), asking whether you want to move, copy, or symlink there. Unfortunately it seems that its rename/overwrite dialog is not as good as Dolphin's, though, without the option to automatically rename all.
BUT funnily enough, you can drag and drop it into a folder on a Dolphin window, and its overwrite/rename dialog will have that option, both applications are making up for what the other lacks.
But even then they don't have all that Konqueror on KDE3 had... I wish "Trinity" was more of a big thing, like Mate, with Debian packaging, if they do have a fully functional KDE3 Konqueror...
To be honest, I'm not sure KDE3 KFM had "locate" search functionality, though, but it would be surprising.
Anyway, if you want to search something with locate and create dozens of symlinks in a single folder for more careful inspection of each file, but you don't have or want Baloo, theoretically you could use locate and "pipe" its result into some one-liner that would create the symlinks somewhere, with all the if-thens necessary to not overwrite anything. Or, you can install Krusader, which has an integrated search using "locate" (or mlocate). Then it should or could be just a matter of selecting the results, dragging and dropping into a given folder, and then a context menu will pop-up (unless one has it configured to do some other default action), asking whether you want to move, copy, or symlink there. Unfortunately it seems that its rename/overwrite dialog is not as good as Dolphin's, though, without the option to automatically rename all.
BUT funnily enough, you can drag and drop it into a folder on a Dolphin window, and its overwrite/rename dialog will have that option, both applications are making up for what the other lacks.
But even then they don't have all that Konqueror on KDE3 had... I wish "Trinity" was more of a big thing, like Mate, with Debian packaging, if they do have a fully functional KDE3 Konqueror...
To be honest, I'm not sure KDE3 KFM had "locate" search functionality, though, but it would be surprising.
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