However, i had to study many forums, hours over hours, just to discover how to do the simplest of things: SEARCH for files.
I had already found the tracker search tool that comes together with the distro, and i believe it's such a weird, complicated, buggy and stupid program, that it's almost useless for the job it's supposed to be doing. I spent many hours to reach that conclusion. Maybe it's just because i'm a newbie, but i found many people had the same opinion in many forums all over the internet. It finally crashed my system, because of the tracker deamon using too much cpu, and needless to say, it never detected a single file.
So? I tried to find another way of searching, i couldn't believe that this strange and incomprehensible tool named tracker search tool was the only search capability of linux mint.
The problem was that i couldn't search the linux mint forums, because the words "find" and "files" got rejected by the search engine for being too common. There was no other word i could use to find what i was looking for, other than the word "search"... I ended up looking in google...
I read about the "find" command that one can use in the terminal, but i had to say it made me angry, because i expected a simpler way of searching files than this.
After A LOT of study (i want to emphasise on that) i read about the gnome-search-tool. I typed it in terminal (it wasn't in my mintmenu) and VOILA! A search tool for normal people. Needless to say, i fell in love with
it.
My suggestions are:
a) Is there a reason for the search function to be so well hidden? I realised just a few minutes before writing this text that there is a search function in the nautilus window. But, shouldnt there be a program or a function in the mintmenu? Kinda something like windows? Maybe it's not a bad idea to copy some ideas from windows, after all searching for files is a simple thing and should be immediately available to anyone.
b) The default search function should bring up gnome-search-tool and nothing else. It's just so marvelous, it's madness to thing of anything else instead.
c) The tracker search tool is so complicated (I really doubt that even advanced users have any idea what to do with it), that it shouldn't even be installed by default. It messes up things more than it fixes them, and drives new users (and normal people) completely mad. Moreover, someone new to the distro will thing this is the only search capability of the system.
d) I also would love a "HOW TO" guide about searching files. But I am going to do that myself
PS. Don't laugh at me. I believe i'm not the first one to have had this problem. I also believe that many many many new users have searched for a "find files" function under MintMenu.
PS2. Please take my word seriously. I'm new to Linux, therefore i believe i still see things the way they are. The way any normal person would expect it to be.
PS3. Sorry for my bad english, i understand quite well, but i'm bad at speaking / writing
Sorry if became tiresome
