Bug 110871

Summary: Add search field to "open with..." dialog
Product: [Applications] kfile Reporter: Maurizio Colucci <maurizio.colucci>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Maurizio Colucci 2005-08-16 10:51:23 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)

Adding a search box in the "open with..." dialog would be useful to narrow down the visible programs. If you know the program you want to use, you would type part of its name, and the list would be narrowed. Then you would click the program in the tree (which would probably become a flat list).

Note: the current text field is not the same thing, because you have to type the whole name, and because you don't have feedback (e.g. you are not told whether the program you typed is installed, is mistyped etc.)
Comment 1 Maksim Orlovich 2005-08-16 19:52:41 UTC 
eek, forgot to change component
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:36:43 UTC 
Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 18:43:00 UTC 
This was done recently!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 359233 ***