Bug 315074

Summary:	File name filter only filters images, ignores other files and folders
Product:	[Applications] gwenview	Reporter:	Wolf Behrenhoff <wolf.behrenhoff>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	benni, h.klene, konton
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Wolf Behrenhoff 2013-02-13 15:28:12 UTC

Go to a folder containing images and other (non-image) files. Click the "Browse" tab.

You see a list of folders and files in this directory. Then click "Add filter"->"Filter by Name" and type some search string, e.g. ".eps".

It seems the filter is only applied to images, so from the images only those containing ".eps" will be shown. But other files, e.g. "sheet.ods" will still show even they do not contain ".eps".

In KDE 4.9 and before, this was working properly. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
To reproduce:
mkdir test ; cd test
touch test.png; touch test.eps; touch file.ods ; mkdir Folder
gwenview

--> now try to apply a file name filter - it will not affect Folder and file.ods

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 02:32:49 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 2 Holger 2021-03-28 20:15:22 UTC

Still relevant in 20.08.2
Filename filter of gwenview ignores:
a) Folders
b) Archive files (including modern zipped office documents)
c) symbolic links to a) and b)

This is inconsistent with filename filters in Dolphin of the same version.

Comment 3 konton 2024-03-17 13:09:33 UTC

Still present in 23.08.1.

I do data analysis where I generate >250k files, which are a mix of images and .ods spreadsheets. Not the best idea to have that many files in one folder, I know, but that is how the pipeline is set up. Since the .ods files are stored in zip format, they show up in gwenview, and there is no way to hide them. So in gwenview I need to scroll down past ~100k icons before I get to my images.

Comment 4 A Linux User 2025-09-04 12:18:35 UTC

Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it yet. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with Gwenview 25.08.0 (the latest released version)?

Comment 5 konton 2025-11-26 09:50:57 UTC

Yes, still present in Gwenview 25.08.1