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How To Disable Recursive Search In Nautilus 3.6 or 3.8 [Patch w/ PPA]

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Synapse Indicator: New Search AppIndicator Based On Synapse Launcher

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Synapse Indicator is a new, unofficial search indicator created for elementary OS. The application should also work under Unity, the Ubuntu GNOME fallback session or in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/cairo-dock-32-released-with-improved.html">Cairo Dock</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqKcac4pF9DfpTUCVBewgKWAz98MN8vHzO9UsKhk4RLBXR2pb6gLNOswCkuj4k4X4esq0l4kvF7vsEkYorKfF0M93OHZJ-nN0jkL15ykiCTLi3xgUBgM-Do4BMLQOEGlP-M0LCcIC60Y/s1600/synapse-indicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Synapse Indicator elementary OS" border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqKcac4pF9DfpTUCVBewgKWAz98MN8vHzO9UsKhk4RLBXR2pb6gLNOswCkuj4k4X4esq0l4kvF7vsEkYorKfF0M93OHZJ-nN0jkL15ykiCTLi3xgUBgM-Do4BMLQOEGlP-M0LCcIC60Y/s320/synapse-indicator.png" title="Synapse Indicator elementary OS" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Synapse Indicator in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/elementary-os-luna-beta-2-available-for.html">elementary OS Luna</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like the name suggests, this is a<b> front-end for <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/syanpse-is-here-new-semantic-launcher.html">Synapse</a>, a semantic launcher used to start applications and find relevant files</b> using Zeitgeist, extensible through plugins. It's a great, lightweight alternative to the once very popular GNOME Do or, more or less, to Unity's Dash.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">While the functionality is basically the same, there are some interface differences: with Synapse Indicator, there's no need to scroll to see all the search results, unlike the original Synapse. Moreover, using the AppIndicator, the results are nicely displayed under categories, so you can quickly distinguish between applications, files and so on.<br /><br />Also, this is useful for those who don't want to use a keyboard shortcut to run Synapse. And of course, the AppIndicator integrates great with the elementary OS desktop, as you can see in the screenshot above.<br /><br /><br />According to Tom Beckmann, the Synapse Indicator developer, it is unlikely for this to become default in elementary OS. "<i>If at all, it'd be it's [Slinghot's] search feature</i>", says Tom on <a href="https://plus.google.com/111734729718206650167/posts/T5yU2TXQ7hv">Google+</a>. But if you want to use it, you can easily install it via PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIi0jWDc_msY9-hNxuoz_vhxEyTod6h5OXfaryd01r6G-z5GHhDL9R41__cHUK-pKK5h-gNZWIW1-jwZ4RAKq6gss7iz9LCqOaqE2XrUERfPtiSk5UcvmAMN74VUF9vFCMy1ZC7kZaSTc/s1600/synapse-indicator-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Synapse Indicator" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIi0jWDc_msY9-hNxuoz_vhxEyTod6h5OXfaryd01r6G-z5GHhDL9R41__cHUK-pKK5h-gNZWIW1-jwZ4RAKq6gss7iz9LCqOaqE2XrUERfPtiSk5UcvmAMN74VUF9vFCMy1ZC7kZaSTc/s450/synapse-indicator-ubuntu.png" title="Synapse Indicator" width="450" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Synapse Indicator in Ubuntu 13.04</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before proceeding with the installation, please note that Synapse Indicator is in its infancy so you may encounter bugs. Since it uses the same code as Synapse, there shouldn't be any functionality issues, but the interface might have some glitches, especially if you're using Ubuntu, since this is aimed at elementary OS. For instance, in my test under Ubuntu, I've had to set the system font to 10 (default is 11) to get the "WolframAlpha" entry properly aligned in the indicator. Also, the indicator doesn't have any options for now.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update: a version that supports accessing the indicator using a keyboard shortcut (ALT+SUPER+SPACE)</b> is now available in the PPA, however, using the keyboard shortcut hasn't worked in my test.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Synapse Indicator</h2><br />If you use Ubuntu, you'll firstly need to add the elementary OS daily PPA, required for the Granite 0.2, a Synapse Indicator dependency (you can remove the PPA after installing Synapse Indicator if you want):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Synapse Indicator can be installed in Ubuntu / elementary OS by using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/unstable-upstream<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-synapse</code></pre><br /><b>Once installed, you need to restart the panel or log out and log back in.</b><br /><br />In elementary OS, this should restart the panel:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>killall wingpanel</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Unity, you can press ALT + F2 and enter "unity". Or simply log out and log back in and the new indicator should show up on the panel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, you can get the Synapse Indicator code from <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/synapse-project/indicator-search">BZR</a>.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>seen on <a href="http://atombit.es/indicator-synapse-llega-el-buscador-para-elementaryos">atombit.es</a></i></div>

Synapse Indicator: New Search AppIndicator Based On Synapse Launcher

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Desktop Search Tool `Recoll` Updated With Significant Improvements

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aTGk9w39_AA/UZYpOqB95yI/AAAAAAAAPSk/qmr2FB7lZiM/s1600/recoll-ui.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Recoll" border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aTGk9w39_AA/UZYpOqB95yI/AAAAAAAAPSk/qmr2FB7lZiM/s320/recoll-ui.jpg" title="Recoll" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is a full text search tool for Linux that comes with a Qt GUI, an Ubuntu Unity Lens and it can also be used via command line. The application can find keywords inside documents as well as file names.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This featureful desktop search tool can index a huge number of file types. Besides text, html, maildir and mailbox (Thunderbird, Evolution), Gaim and Purple log files, Scribus files, man pages and Dia diagrams which it supports natively, Recoll can also index by using external helpers: Abiword, Microsoft Offic XML, LibreOffice, SVG and Gnumeric files, Okular annotation files, PDFs, MSWord, PowerPoint and Excel files, CHM, EPUB, archives like tar, zip and rar, ics, postscript, RTF, TeX, dvi, djvu, audio and image file tags and more. For more info, see the Recoll <a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/features.html">features page</a>.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z1QgxSNZFTk/UZY04uNVHmI/AAAAAAAAPTE/FNleVgRGks4/s1600/recoll-adv-search-user-prefs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Recoll search tool" border="0" height="142" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z1QgxSNZFTk/UZY04uNVHmI/AAAAAAAAPTE/FNleVgRGks4/s320/recoll-adv-search-user-prefs.jpg" title="Recoll search tool" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recoll 1.19 advanced search filters and user interface preferences</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Recoll supports wildcards (*, ?, []) as well as advanced searches such as: <br /><ul><li>"OR", "AND" operators</li><li>search for autor, e.g.: <i>author:"george orwell"</i></li><li>search by size, date, mime or format</li><li>search inside a folder, e.g.: <i>dir:/home/andrei/Dropbox</i></li><li>more</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To use these advanced searches in the Recoll UI, select "Query language" next to the search term. For the Unity Lens, simply type the query in the lens search field. You can use the Advanced Search dialog (<i>Tools > Advanced Search</i>) to use such filters without having to manually enter them in the search field.<br /><br />For more info, see the Recoll <a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.SEARCH.LANG">user manual</a> (chapter "3.5. The query language").<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Recoll 1.19</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Recoll 1.19 has been <a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/release-1.19.html">released</a> a few days ago</b> (and now updated to 1.19.2 due to some bugs found in the initial 1.19.0 release), <b>with many new features and improvements, such as:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">indexing can now use multiple threads which should bring a major performance boost for multiprocessor machines with big indexes;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">it's now possible to use "OR" with "dir:" and wildcards have been enabled</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the advanced search panel now has a history feature.  Use the     up/down arrows to walk the search history list;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new results popup menu to display sub-documents for a given document, useful to display email attachments;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new GUI configuration options to enable "search as you type" and to disable Qt auto-completition in the simple search string which was confusing at times;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">better video files support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new web browser <a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/">interface</a> that uses the Bottle Python Web framework for the server side and the Recoll Python module and it can be self-contained so you don't have to run apache or another web server to use it. Please note that for me, the new web interface didn't work in Ubuntu 13.04 (bug reported);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new filter to index and retrieve Lotues Notes messages;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the first indexing ran after a new Recoll installation will now firstly index data that is more likely to be searched, so you can start searching before the indexing is completed;</li><li>implemented cache for last file uncompressed. This will much improve     usage, e.g. for people fetching successive messages from a compressed mail     folder;</li><li>there is a new recursive explicit reindex option available for the command line indexer;</li><li>improved handling of filters during indexing resulting in less     subprocesses;</li><li>extended file attributes are now indexed by default. As a side effect, Recoll now uses st_ctime, not st_mtime to detect file changes; </li><li style="text-align: justify;">more!</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Recoll in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest Recoll by using its official PPA:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install recoll</code></pre><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BClf67-Y69Q/UZYsGxFST6I/AAAAAAAAPS0/Vzr9iDVc2L4/s1600/recoll-lens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Recoll Unity Lens" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BClf67-Y69Q/UZYsGxFST6I/AAAAAAAAPS0/Vzr9iDVc2L4/s320/recoll-lens.jpg" title="Recoll Unity Lens" width="320" /></a></div><br />To also install the <b>Recoll Unity Lens</b>, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install recoll-lens</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After installing Recoll Lens, log out and log back in or restart Unity</b> by pressing ALT + F2 and entering "unity".<br /><br />The Recoll Lens doesn't support Dash Previews yet and in Ubuntu 13.04 on which I've tested the latest version on, the icons that show up in the lens have an ugly black background - hopefully this will be fixed soon.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Next, you need to start the Recoll GUI</b> - the first time you run it, it will automatically <b>start indexing the files</b> in your home folder. If you want to configure the partitions / folders Recoll should index, from the Recoll menu select <i>Preferences > Indexing configuration</i>. Also check out the Indexing schedule in the same Preferences menu for configuring how often Recoll should index the new or changed files.</div><br /><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, see the Recoll <a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/download.html">downloads page</a>. </b></div>

Desktop Search Tool `Recoll` Updated With Significant Improvements

Recoll is a full text search tool for Linux that comes with a Qt GUI, an Ubuntu Unity Lens and it can also be used via command line. The ap...

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