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I suppose I am indifferent since I use the command line tool to locate files. It's probably because I've never felt the KDE/Gnome file finder was ever productive or useful. I'd still be interested in seeing and trying new technologies.

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I suppose I am indifferent since I use the command line tool to locate files. It's probably because I've never felt the KDE/Gnome file finder was ever productive or useful. I'd still be interested in seeing and trying new technologies.

I think indexing of file contents and meta data will be a win. It really takes quite some time to grep my employer's source code repository, for example.

Do you already use any advanced command line search tools? Locate does have an index, but it's only about the file names...

I agree that the current KFind doesn't provide much added value over the command line tools. It does for people who prefer a GUI, though.

Having the advanced KDE search features-to-come also available through command line tools would be nice.

I use locate. Nothing special about that as you already know.... But I have found it to be better than KFind. Maybe it's just because I'm a creature of habit but I would/am interesting in a new search engine for files.....

I have adapted to the indexing of locate. I can adapt to a new seach engine.

I have rarely ever used kfind, but nevertheless a google-like search, integrated into the addressbar, exactly like a webshortcut would be awesome. eg: find: seb.pdf would return the file on my pc.

I like the concept really I do, however I don't think KDE (or gnome or any other desktop manager for that matter) is the proper realm to implement it.

To make it effective, it has to be a core element of the operating system not the desktop manager. The OS already performs maintenance on the file structure, and in order for this to work, KDE as well would have to perform mainentance in addition to the OS for every single write action to the drives. That'd result in a slowdown not worth the convenience.

Furthermore, I'm not always using KDE. Sometimes I'm just using a terminal. Another user may use Gnome or IceWM. Files are shared across a network, so another machine may change the contents of my drive. A desktop manager cannot monitor all those situations. Synchronizing your desktop with the file tree would be a process not worth the effort. Nor would the system slowdown from adding redundant maintenance.

Perhaps this could work if it were run as a service, however I still don't think the convenience would be worth the resources. It'd only be worth the tradeoff on a large network. As the quote earlier mentioned "It's much easier to find a file on the web than on your own computer", that is only true because there is a substantial amount of resources utilized to make it possible. Again, this would not fall in the realm of a desktop manager.