Bug 492228

Summary:	In overview mode, if window search finds a match, applications are not listed
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Gergely HORVÁTH <horvathg.1988>
Component:	effects-overview	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.1.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Gergely HORVÁTH 2024-08-26 17:32:04 UTC

Ways to reproduce:
- install Itinerary (or any other application)
- open a website in a browser that contains that applications name (e.g: https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/)
- open overview
- type "itinerary"

Result:
- the browser tab is focused/showed

Expected result:
- focus/show the browser tab but also list the application search result 

I'm not sure if it is intentional or, where this list should fit on the overview but I hope it can be worked out. I know a lot of options is undesirable but it may also work to have an option to always show the search results or not. 

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 31,1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics
Manufacturer: TUXEDO
Product Name: TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen6

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-08-27 19:57:39 UTC

This is indeed intentional at the moment. It may be changed in the future though, if anyone can figure out a decent UI for representing this. So far no one has been able to come up with one that's implementable.

Comment 2 Gergely HORVÁTH 2024-08-30 08:54:40 UTC

Thanks for the reply Nate! You mentioned that "So far no one has been able to come up with one that's implementable." It suggest that there was a conversation about it. Can you maybe link that conversation if it happened on a public, written channel? Thanks in advance!

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-08-30 15:38:13 UTC

There was a KWin merge request; IIRC it got closed so it should be in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/?scope=all&state=closed somewhere.

Comment 4 Gergely HORVÁTH 2024-08-31 11:45:39 UTC

Thanks for the hint! There are multiple results in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/?scope=all&state=closed&search=overview the following one seems to be the most comprehensive: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4955

I include it here for the record. Also, it has been suggested and I can confirm that it works: pressing spacebar twice removes all the windows from the search results, yet the KRunner search will work. This assumes that window search is not fuzzy, yet KRunner search is.