Bug 400949

Summary: Dolphin doesn't find linux hidden files & doesn't search if Baloo is deactivated
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: sac <milakam>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: elvis.angelaccio, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 18.04.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description sac 2018-11-11 23:13:35 UTC 
SUMMARY
Dolphin cannot find hidden files, because Baloo is not indexing them. According to the second bug, this is by design (although I disagree here, also in windows - where are even more inexperienced users - hidden files show in search results if they are shown in Explorer).

Solution could be to make Baloo only index hidden files & folders, when those are actually shown in Dolphin. 

Independent from that, Dolphin should also search when Baloo is deactivated and maybe show a notification "search can be slow, because the indexing service is disabled".

Dolphin doesn't show windows hidden files (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184462)
Baloo unable to find files in hidden folders (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391252)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Dolphin
2. Press CTRL+F
3. Search for "plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc"

OBSERVED RESULT
No results.

EXPECTED RESULT
File is found.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu
KDE Plasma Version: 5.13.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-11-13 15:34:43 UTC 
Looks like you found the existing bug (Bug 391252) that was tracking this request. You might have notices that it was closed as RESOLVED INTENTIONAL. I'm afraid that's still the case: Baloo is not intended to be used for searching through hidden dotfiles; it's supposed to be used for user files.

It is likewise not technically feasible to have Baloo temporarily index hidden files only when visible in Dolphin.

Various people have expressed interest in a non-Baloo file search feature, which is tracked with Bug 391677.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 391677 ***
Comment 2 fire f. 2020-10-02 05:30:57 UTC 
since 2020 , systemsettings "Search" has:

"index hidden files and folders"   i.e.  those  .files or dotfiles


so new, its not even yet translated everywhere.