Show all file types
JetBrains (CLion in this case) uses Thunar's "search" function to open the directory containing log files, which brings up Catfish. Catfish displays an empty window with "No files found." There is no button to show all files. If I select "Other" and enter "" or "." it still doesn't show anything. If I enter "*" in the search bar it shows nothing.
In fact the directory that CLion opens contains a idea.log file as idea.log.1, idea.log.2, etc; but there is no way to see that these files exist, or that any files exist at all, or get any clue what their names might be so I can search for them. Since Catfish doesn't show the path to the current directory, I can't even open a terminal to look at it manually.
I did finally get it to show .log files, by entering "log" in the search bar. There was no clue that this was what I needed to do, or that what the filename might be. Catfish says "try making your search less specific" but I never searched for anything! This was a very frustrating experience.
When I enter "idea" in the search bar I see all log files, and if I then click "documents" it filters and shows only "idea.log". So far so good; but if I open Catfish and just click "Documents" it does nothing. Again I have to enter a search parameter (and NOT the obvious '*') to get anything to show up. This feels backwards and not what I expect. The button is there, if I click it I expect to see all document types.
Suggestions:
- Offer a way to display "all files"
- Display "all files" as the default when opening a directory on the command line, and filter down the list using the search bar. That is way more friendly than showing nothing and leaving the user to guess.
- Make the file types buttons default to showing all files of a given type, if no search filter is provided
- There should be a way to identify the current folder, for cases where Catfish is opened by another program and you don't know what you're looking at