Better search in the file manager?

[Christian Jaeger]

Hi

The task: from within a particular folder (~/Music) and subfolders,
find the newest file.

Attempted solution: in the file manager from Unity, enter "*" as the
search term; oh, that won't work. Ok, click on "+" after the search,
hm, that only has one option, file type, not even a range of
date/times. Ok, is there another way to search? Enter "search" in the
launcher, no luck.

Usually I'll open a terminal at that point and solve it from the
shell. But I really need a better solution for the guy I'm helping. So
what is a real(tm) way to search on Ubuntu? And it should work for a
particular folder.

Would you recommend to install KDE instead? (This guy is not really a
power user, but not a newbie either. And I'm starting to feel like I
should show him KDE, as I've run into many bugs and limitations on
Unity, and over the last 1.5 years things haven't really changed as
far as I can see.)

Thanks,
Christian.