[kde-linux] KDE File Search

[Stefano Crocco]

On Wednesday 30 November 2011 Bogus Zaba wrote
> I have just updated from KDE 4.5.5 to 4.6.5. All running nice and
> smooth, but I miss one thing - an old-fashioned file search dialog, like
> I used to get from Dolphin Tools Menu. Here I could enter partial
> filenames, contents data and properties (size, date etc). This appears
> to have disappeared and been replaced with a panel which is accessed
> from the Dolphin edit menu (eh? I'm not editing anything, just looking
> for stuff) which is more limited and (to me) not very intuitive. Is
> there a find-file utility somewhere else in the KDE collection which
> lets you do filesearch the old fashioned way?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers
> 

I don't know whether it's what you're looking for but there's a Find 
Files/Folder in the K menu, which launches the kfind program.

I hope this helps

Stefano