Catfish 1.4.10 Released

The best Linux graphical file search utility keeps getting better! Catfish 1.4.10 features a new preferences dialog, a polished user interface, and significantly improved search results and performance.

What’s New?

New Features

• A brand new Preferences dialog. This dialog includes options for window layout, display options, custom exclude directories (new!), and an option to close Catfish after opening a file (new!).
• Custom exclude directories. Previous releases of Catfish excluded various directories (/dev, ~/.cache, ~/.gvfs) to boost performance. This latest feature customizes path exclusions so users can further speed up their searches. (Xfce #15317)
• Close after select. Frequent file searcher? This feature will let you find and open your missing file and close Catfish immediately, keeping your application list at bay. (Xfce #14888)

Bug Fixes

• The previous release, Catfish 1.4.9 meant to include fixes for path exclusions. Somehow, I forgot to include the actual fix! Path exclusions are fixed and search performance should be increased as a result. (Debian #926850)
• The results now always display icons at a consistent size. Previously, some icons were displayed much larger than others, breaking the visual flow.

Improved Application menu

In the past, clicking the application menu in Catfish meant seeing a cluttered, inconsistently spaced, and aligned popover with poorly worded options. No more!

• Better use of space, padding, and margins
• Clearer purpose labels
• Keyboard accelerators are now displayed in the menu

Search Improvements

• Symbolic links are now traversed, with actual paths only processed once
• Added search priority, surfacing more relevant results faster. Folders are now descended with the following priority, then alphabetically:
  • XDG paths (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc)
  • Visible paths
  • Hidden paths

General

• Better use of alt-accelerators
• Improved installation instructions (Xfce #15105)
• Reduced warnings displayed in the terminal
• Simplified Python 2/3 compatibility code
• Various code quality fixes (pylint, flake)

Translation Updates

• Simplified welcome text. While not visually different, the 3 translatable phrases were merged into a single sentence to simplify translations. (Xfce #15596)

Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish

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Downloads

Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)