File Finder

Embarrassed by my original utility, I spent 4 sleepless nights writting and testing and tweaking and retesting, until, at last, I have something that is actually very usefull. I will give you the screens then a brief description:



Opening screen





Screen showing right-click menu





The file properties shown on a double-click




More can be done with Tk than I imagined, and it is very quick. I made the long loops of searching for files run much more quickly by using a combination of findutils and python, because "walking" and checking the files and directories in pure python was a slow bummer.

I really got the little script to motivate, and you can even stop a search quickly in mid-stream. Also opens many filetypes with their default handler and can show file properties. Will search through subdirectories (recursive) or not, as you choose. Will also allow case-insensitive searchng.

Lighter text for file listings represents files that are read-only for the current user.



The new finder will be replacing the old "File Finder" in the system menu with Absolute-11.0.5. The file it replaces is /usr/bin/ff.py