General Information

Gnome-find is an easy-to-use, but powerful, graphical version of the GNU "find" utility.

Installation

See the file 'INSTALL' for detailed instructions.

In general:

        ./configure
        make
        make install

Requirements

GTK+ (v1.2.0 or higher)
GNOME libs
libglade
If you have installed the above three using a prepackaged format (e.g., RPM format), you need to also install the corresponding "devel" package (e.g., gnome-libs-devel) in order to compile the sources.

Authors

Gnome-find is written by Andy Kahn, and is derived from the GNU find utility (findutils-4.1). It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

Homepage

http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net

Detailed Information

Gnome-find really is a graphical version of the GNU find utility. It is not just a front-end which just forks and execs "find", nor is it a utility that reinvents the wheel by rewriting the "find" utility itself.

The original source code to the GNU "find" utility (as found in findutils-4.1) was used, and a GUI component was integrated into it. Consequently, the actual file finding backend component is based on the very stable and mature code in GNU "find", while the GUI component provides a modern, easy-to-use interface.

By making it a truely graphical program, it avoids the common portability problems typically encountered by front-ends when they run on systems without GNU "find", as well as avoiding messy issues with forking a new process and communicating with it (e.g., pipes, temporary files, etc.).

Gnome-find features a default, no-nonsense dialog for use in most commonly specified searches. Additionally, a second, more detailed and advanced dialog is available to specify more powerful search parameters.

Reporting Bugs

Include the output from "gnome-find --info"
Describe the problem is as much detail as possible.
Try to describe exactly how to reproduce the problem.
Send email to the author and/or the gnome-find mailing list.