Bug 208605

Summary:	dolphin's filter bar should be capable of working with multiple search terms
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Janet <bugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdebugs.99.urgwurz, korossy, skreech2, sputnikshock, yadtxizh
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Janet 2009-09-26 15:29:51 UTC

Version:           1.3 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-0.slh.3-sidux-686

In konqueror filemanager it was possible to filter the view for more than one filetype. In dolphin this isn't possible anymore but would be very helpful. Because the filetype filter is missing in dolphin you maybe could make the filter bar aware of multiple search terms like the search in amarok1 with OR and AND (it was the first I tried when I saw dolphin's huge filter bar and realized that there's no filetype filter anymore, alas it didn't work as expected). This would also make dolphin's filter much more flexible than the one konqueror had.

Comment 1 Peter Paulsen 2009-10-04 12:40:49 UTC

That's a great idea. But how about adding that feature AND implementing the filetype filter of konqueror? It was very nice to see at one glance in the filter dropdown menu how many files of a certain filetype are in the folder.

Comment 2 Sputnik 2010-02-22 12:22:02 UTC

It's a great idea! - I am missing inverted searches (NOT or maybe !)

Comment 3 Roger Pixley 2010-02-25 10:44:08 UTC

Actually I was wondering why the File Open Dialog has an all types and Supported types as choice in the dropdown but doesn't have any filters. It should be pretty simple to have file types  that are supported turn up at the top of th drop down with a separator followed by the file types that exist in the directory.

Still not sure if I should file a bug on that.

Comment 4 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:21:30 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 5 yadtxizh 2021-01-23 12:38:02 UTC

I've stumbled across this issue and may have found a work around (Dolphin shows it's version as 18.12.3):

Filter bar accepts regular expressions like the following (searching for exe and pdf files):

(.*exe)$|(.*pdf)$

While it's not really content it's at least close by using filename extension. Of course it would be great,to have and and or together with - preferable modular - "namespaces" (like tag:, filename:, filetype:, content:....). (See also Bug 431240)