[kde-linux] KDE File Search

[doug]

On 11/30/2011 05:54 AM, 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
>
In the KDE Menu, there is a File Tools entry, which has a little app 
called Find Files/Folders.  This seems to be the
same as the old file finder in Dolphin. Like other apps on the menu, you 
can right click and put an icon on screen
if you like.

--doug