After a little searching, I found a program called gnome-find which basically solves all of the feature problems of the search for files applet:
http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/ It's looks pig-ugly... but it seems like the stuff under the hood is all that's needed in search for files, with a little tab saying "advanced" that presents all those choices and options. -- Search for Files cannot search for question marks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190661 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-utils in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs