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On Friday 02 February 2007 13:56, John wrote:
This subject is giving me a headache. There doesnt seem to be anyway of
getting kfind to only look in certain directories. It will only except one.
Yes, seems to be a limitation. Likely because exposing such a feature could
result in quite a complex UI
This isnt a problem off my home directory because I know where things are
and dont often have to wait for kfind to sort through 15plus gig of all
sorts of things (very little video etc). It is a problem searching off
root as I have to include the home directory. A root search is often needed
after I install new applications. I also want to re format 2 hard drives
off my home directory. It would be nice to locate all pdfs, docs etc and
sort them in one go. Files arent a problem more than one directory is.
updatedb+locate?
I think there is even a third party KIO slave which lets you
access "locate"-able files in file dialogs.
Is there any way of doing this with kfind or is there another application
that will. Ive looked briefly at beagle but I dont want a dead brained
numb skull windoze type solution that assumes I have everything in certain
specifically named directories. It just isnt flexible enough and I do hope
kde isnt going that way.
The most likely candidate is Strigi, a very nice and fast indexer written in
pure C++
rel="nofollow" www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/ www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/
Btw, on your original mail:
I recently found that I could use kfind to find files with several
suffixes by entering *.pdf;*.txt;*.doc etc. There is nothing in the
help files on this general area of use.
The weird thing is that this information is available in the "Whats this"
help, i.e. when one clicks on the question mark icon on the window decoration
and then on the input field.
You could file a bug report against the KFind documenation
Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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