Bug 313456

Summary: Annoying and strange behaviour of search in application launcher.
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Denys <rtvd>
Component: widget-kickoffAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: major    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.9.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Denys 2013-01-18 16:30:27 UTC 
By clicking on "K" in application launcher and then typing some text one can  search for application by its name. This is a very useful feature. However, it is broken.

The search results are almost unpredictable and the search often does not see applications unless user types the same thing several times.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on the "K" button to open the application launcher
2. start typing the name of the program
3. also try deleting some characters and type them back

(Tried on a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10)
Actual Results:  
The results of the search are almost arbitrary. 

By typing or removing a character I can get one of three possible combinations:
* nothing at all
* "Synaptic" application
* "Synaptic" application and "run synaptic"
* "run synaptic"

Expected Results:  
1. the results of the search should depend solely on what's in the search field
2. even if a few characters of the name were provided the applications should be listed (most relevant of them if the list is big)
3. "run synaptic" should be lower (as it is less relevant) than "synaptic application"
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:38:16 UTC 
Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham