Bug 340409

Summary:	Dolphin "Find" feature doesn't find internal substrings in filename
Product:	[Unmaintained] Baloo	Reporter:	S <sb56637>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Vishesh Handa <me>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	emmanuelpescosta099, lueck
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description S 2014-10-27 20:47:26 UTC

Hello,

I have Baloo search enabled, but Dolphin can't find substrings in filenames. For example "example_document_1.odt" is not found by searching for "document" in Dolphin. If I search for "example_doc" is does find it, however. This behavior conflicts with the documentation:
https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/applications/dolphin/quick-tips.html
"The search is case insensitive, and does not require surrounding wildcards (*foo* and foo are equivalent)"
Incidentally, using wildcards (*document*) also does not work.

Thanks for looking into this.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Emmanuel Pescosta 2014-10-29 14:50:24 UTC

Thanks for the bug report!

The filenamesearch ioslave checks if the filename contains the pattern.
I agree that other search ioslaves should do it as well.

I'll reassign it to Baloo.

Comment 2 S 2014-10-29 20:07:51 UTC

Thanks for taking a look!

Comment 3 Vishesh Handa 2014-10-30 05:53:25 UTC

With Plasma 5.1, Baloo searches through substrings with _ better.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340410 ***