Bug 430717

Summary: Don't allow searching with empty search string
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Andrius <andrius.puksta>
Component: searchAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: kfm-devel, kuba.k3, nate, stefan.bruens
Priority: NOR    
Version: 20.08.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrius 2020-12-22 19:40:22 UTC 
SUMMARY
When searching empty search term, Dolphin displays all files in folder AND the parent folder

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Dolphin
2. press Ctrl + F
3. press Enter

OBSERVED RESULT
parent folder is displayed on top of result list

EXPECTED RESULT
parent folder is not shown

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-01-12 23:15:50 UTC 
Never mind, I was confused, can't reproduce.

Regardless, an empty search term doesn't not really make any sense. We should prevent executing a search query when the search field is empty. If we fix that, the bug here gets fixed automatically, regardless of who can or can't reproduce it. :)
Comment 2 rvvl 2021-04-24 14:34:33 UTC 
A merge request have been created today which fixes it. 

Ref:
https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/202
Comment 3 Stefan Brüns 2021-04-24 14:36:50 UTC 
Of course its makes sense, you can still search for *all* files with a given tag, type, date, ... or any combination thereof.