Mpiktas wrote: > Usually when I want to find files I use locate from command-line. It > is really fast way to find what you need. I expected something like > that from gnome- search-tool. Apparently it uses find and it takes a > long time to find anything. I found no way to force it to use locate > (yet help says gnome- search-tool uses find locate and grep commands).
As far as I can tell, gnome-search-tool uses locate(1) only when "Look in folder" is set to "/" and the filename contains no wildcards. I consider this a usability bug, since there is no indication that the program's behavior changes in this way (i.e. that runs faster but returns less up-to-date results, depending on the query).
