Bug 208259

Summary:	Support wildcards in filter bar.
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Diego <diego.ml>
Component:	bars: filter	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	frank78ac, toddrme2178
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Diego 2009-09-23 11:15:04 UTC

Version:           1.3 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1), 4.3.1-3.fc10 Fedora)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.29.6-99.fc10.i686

Don't know if this is a bug or a wish.

Dolphin filter bar doesn't seem to handle wildcards very well.

Try writing "partofafilename*abunchofendingchars": you'll probably get nothing in output.

Partly related bugs: bug #155986 and bug #202002 .

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2009-09-24 19:07:21 UTC

Thanks for the report!

> Don't know if this is a bug or a wish.
> Dolphin filter bar doesn't seem to handle wildcards very well.

The filter bar uses regular regular expression matching, and not wildcard matching, at the moment. Changing that behaviour would be a wish.

It would of course break things for users who rely on regular expressions, but it might be that people are in general more familiar with wildcards than with regular expressions.

Comment 2 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:20:05 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 3 Todd 2012-09-02 19:46:06 UTC

This works for me now as of 4.9.  Please re-open with specific steps for something you want to do but can't if it isn't fixed for you.