[kfind] [Bug 45191] Ability to exclude folders from search

[bark mallard]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45191

bark mallard <markjballard at googlemail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from bark mallard <markjballard at googlemail.com> ---
One of the great things about Kfind is that it has an intelligent interface
with lots of options. The tabs work well. They make sense. There's room for
more options under each tab. There's room too for more tabs. Users are not
typically stupid.

The last thing you want to do is adopt a Fischer-Price Gnome app interface that
you can only operate with your thumbs, your fists and your forehead. You want
to be going in the other direction. Give users more and more intelligent
options.

The problem with a lot of apps is they assume users are stupid, so give them
nothing but numpty options. Users are intelligent. They just don't know how to
use sed and awk and all those other things spawned in hell, and that knowledge
of which linux administrators and systems programmers think makes them special.
Users don't have these skills because they are not systems programmers. Their
expertise is in other things. But they would very much like to do the obvious
intelligent things with their computer, like find certain files in a gui to the
exclusion of certain others, and not be forced to read that horrid, horrid
'find' manpage, and then to get the results in a gui so they can do gui things,
like drag the results into a Kate text editor window, or just scan the list and
sort, and so on. You know - real world, human things.

KDE inability to exclude files is a glaring fault in an otherwise brilliantly
simple search tool. So many other tools are simply simple.

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