First of all, thank you very much for my favourite Linux file explorer, Mr. PCMan & Co.
Only one thingie, my eye fell upon: the pcmanfm 'Search Files' window.
It could be confusing for newer users of the program.
It says 'your patterns here', with one asterix.
I didn't look under the hood, but I guess it makes use of the Linux 'find' command:
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find -name "*SEARCHTERM*"
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find -iname "*SEARCHTERM*"
Users who see the single asterix in the pcmanfm search window might think that a single asterix counts as a wildcard, like this:
*SEARCHTERM or SEARCHTERM* or partially *TERM, SEARCH* etc.
with an empty resultscreen as a result.
To make the search work you have to do *SEARCHTERM*, within double asterix's.
It won't work without astrix's either.
A partial *SEARCH* e.g. will find all the filenames with that word within.
Wouldn't it be better to ask for a (partial) 'searchterm' altogether instead of a 'pattern' and build the double asterix's into the program,
so the user only inserts his (partial) search term?
I've included a snapshot of the concerned search/find window.
I'm sorry, in Dutch, my mother tongue.