When minimalism is bad

I like Unix's for Unix's philosophy of building utilities, each of them makes just one job, but does this job perfectly.

This perfect minimalism make you extremely powerful in solving complex tasks with minimal effort.

However, I found myself completely frustrated by minimalism of some Unix's GUI applications.

For example Orage, XFCE organizer doesn't have feature of displaying full list of items (events, todo's journaled items).

There is search field there, but you can not search by glob or regexp :)

Normally, empty field should mean "display all", but not "display nothing".