Re: [Tails-dev] Searching documents in an airgap Tails

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Screenshots, Catfish and Pfilesearch. I've actually wanted one of these
in Tails for a long time.

gl


On 2018-02-03 07:25, ghostlands@??? wrote:
> Is there a reason Catfish isn't being considered for this? It's in
> Debian and works exceptionally well, with a clean and intuitive
> interface.
>
> A more advanced tool is Pfilesearch, but I don't believe it's
> currently in Debian or Ubuntu (it was invented for Puppy Linux). It's
> extremely simple though, and probably could be added and thereafter
> maintained by Tails itself without any meaningful overhead.
>
> Pfilesearch is more comprehensive, but Catfish is not far behind and
> also nice because it offers direct access to the files that it finds.
> By contrast, Pfilesearch results only provide a list of file paths
> that you then have to use a file browser to track down.
>
> gl
>
>
> On 2018-01-28 21:22, Loic Dachary wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 01/28/2018 09:53 PM, DrWhax wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is Tracker something that would actually be useful for journalists?
>>> Do
>>> you know of any case studies where it has proved useful?
>>
>> If you think the best course of action is to:
>>
>> * Assemble a panel of journalists using airgap Tails
>> * Prepare a tails with nautilus + tracker integration
>> * Conduct a UX study to assert they need and actually use this search
>> tool and benefit from it
>> * Summarize the findings of the study in a report
>> * Present the report to Tails developers and kindly ask if this search
>> tool could be integrated in Tails
>>
>> I'd be happy to do that. It will take a few months but it will prove
>> that journalists actually benefit from having a full text search tool
>> for their work.
>>
>>> I think it's probably more useful to have a discuss ticket how to
>>> cater
>>> the needs of journalists better, than integrating something that
>>> might
>>> not be useful.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> Sounds like a plan :-) Would you mind giving me the URL of a good
>> "discuss ticket" so that I can create one that will be a good
>> introduction to this general discussion ?
>>
>> Thanks for your guidance !
>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Loic Dachary:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Do tails developers advise me to:
>>>>
>>>> a) create a feature request at
>>>> https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues/new for the
>>>> inclusion of tracker[1] in Tails and continue the discussion there
>>>>
>>>> b) keep discussing the general problem on this list instead of going
>>>> for a tentative improvement (including tracker) even before there is
>>>> positive feedback to go in this direction
>>>>
>>>> Please forgive me if that's a newbie question, still learning the
>>>> best way to communicate :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
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