Bug 360243

Summary: BAD ordering of search results
Product: [Unmaintained] Baloo Reporter: Gou LF <goughostt>
Component: EngineAssignee: Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major CC: nate, pinak.ahuja
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.9.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gou LF 2016-03-08 04:31:38 UTC
It's just embarrassing to use the Baloo search engine: Someone asked me to show a doc. I proudly (Why? I'm the only one in my office using KDE.) pressed Alt+Space and typed the full name of that doc. But fuck! Where is it? Seconds later, I had to  open dolphin to locate that doc. (I'm sure I typed the exact file name.)

What Baloo gives is a bunch of files with no reasonable ordering. Ill-ordering and full-text indexing makes Baloo useless to me: I have a lot of files having keyword BLAH and one file with file name BLAH.pdf, then most likely I cannot locate BLAH.pdf with Baloo quickly.

Disabling full-text indexing is not appropriate, of course. Then Baloo SHOULD order it's search results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put a lot of files with similar topics in a folder indexed by Baloo.
2. Search one file by it's file name.

Actual Results:  
The file I want is listed at a random position.

Expected Results:  
The file I want is listed at the beginning.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-05-19 19:50:43 UTC
No profanity in bug reports please. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting#Bug_tracker_etiquette

I've never encountered this issue. Please re-open only if you've still experienced it with KDE Frameworks 5.46 or later.