Usage

You can invoke GNOME Disk Catalog from command line by typing

$ diskcatalog &

How GNOME Disk Catalog works?

GNOME Disk Catalog gives every file three attributes: name, path and disk. The name is the filename without path. The path is found from path attribute :) and disk is given by user.

The data is saved to user selected file and it can be read from there at startup (or with open command).

GNOME Disk Catalog has a little command line, just below toolbar. User (you) can give commands like list all to it.

Complete command summary is following:

Commands list and search are synonymes and they are used in the same way. They show all files, whose name matches to file. Regular expressions can be used (list my*file[123a-g]). Command open opens given catalog and view disk shows only catalog entries who match to the given diskname. If you want see all different names of disks, view disks shows only the first file from every disk. If you type only the name of the file, it means same as giving list command.

Of course you should be able to delete entries from catalog. So delete does it for you. You must specify which entry must be deleted by giving to the command delete three arguments: name, path and disk. Again regural expressions can be used.

The describe command adds given description to specified file(s) and count counts database entries.

The menu bar

The menu bar is located at the top of the window by default. The place can be changed, but that is covered in the global GNOME documentation.

The menu bar has three menus, File, Actions and Help. From File and Actions menus you can create new/open/save catalog, add/search files to/from catalog and edit preferences.

Same functions can be found from toolbar too, so toolbar isn't covered here (yet).

Preferences

The GNOME Disk Catalog has three options.

These options do same as they are supposed to do. The second option defines which catalog format you want to use. The new format includes description info, but is little slower than older one. If you want to open a catalog at startup you are needed to tell its full path with name.