Catfish 1.4.7 Released

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With tighter desktop integration, improved performance, and fixes for old and new bugs, Catfish 1.4.7 makes desktop search faster and easier.

What’s New?

General

Cleaner, easier-to-read manpage contents
Information about the --path command-line flag was added to help and the manpage
Updated AppStream components to align with the latest specification
Replaced project URLs with HTTPS where possible

Desktop Integration

The window layout now respects the current desktop ( Xfce #14486)
A headerbar layout is used for Budgie, GNOME, and Pantheon
All other desktops use the traditional title bar layout
This option can be overridden using the use-headerbar option
in the Catfish configuration file (~/.config/catfish/catfish.rc)
Files can now be dragged into other applications ( Xfce #14492)
For file managers, the files will usually be copied to that location
For other applications, the files will be opened by the application

Performance

Thumbnails will now only be generated when the thumbnail view is active ( Xfce #14689)
Added /dev to list of standard excluded directories
Files within /dev can still be searched if explicitly selected by the user

Bug Fixes

Quoted search strings now allow for searching for specific phrases instead of searching for actual quote characters ( Xfce #14501)
The file context menu can now be opened multiple times ( Xfce #14621)
Fix crash at startup when Catfish enables multi-file selection ( LP #1753163)

Translation Updates

Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian