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#2 Great Stuff!

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nobody
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2005-10-09
2005-10-09
Anonymous
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Please keep working on The File Seeker! It may not have
a hope of competing with some of the new User-Friendly
searches available, but it's awesome as a Power User's
search tool!

While command line stuff is nice, to do anything
quickly you a simple yet powerful GUI that responds to
both the keyboard and mouse quickly.

Some thoughts:
1) Double-Clicking a found file automatically opens the
folder the file is contained in, or attempts to launch
the file.

2) Right-Clicking should list an option to get file
info, so you can Right-Click and hit "Info" which
brings up the standard windows file information box(if
possible).

3) If the index hasn't been updaed in a day,
automatically do so upon the first search without
asking(or have an option to enable/disable this).

4) Remove the 'Get Firefox' logo and back button -
automatically start in the find files screen, and add a
preferences menu to handle options.

5) Make text search by default search all files, or
have a radio-button option to flip between "All Files"
and "Document Files", which would be .txt, .rtf, .doc,
etc. - Any power user would find the ini that lets you
add formats in no time. The box to type them into is
unnecessary.

6) Support standard explorer commands - responding to
things like the delete key, F2 to rename, Ctrl+C to
copy, etc. Ideally you could try to get it close to how
explorer displays files in folders under 'details'.

Just some thoughts. Please don't add a lame sidepanel
though. I hate those things and disable them whenever
possible.

I hope you keep working on this, and keep up the good work!

-Kramy
kramykramykramykramykramy@gmail.com

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