[kde-linux] KDE File Search

Bogus Zaba bogsub at bogzab.plus.com
Wed Nov 30 12:42:59 UTC 2011


On 11/30/2011 12:11 PM, Stefano Crocco wrote:
> 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
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Many thanks for both replies. KFind is exactly what I was looking for




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