Bug 512400

Summary: Substring matches anchored at the beginning of the string comes after substring matches in the middle of the string
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: Connor Chang <connorc0627>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: alexander.lohnau, bugseforuns, connorc0627, natalie_clarius
Priority: NOR Keywords: regression, usability
Version First Reported In: 6.5.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Connor Chang 2025-11-20 18:09:01 UTC
More search issues, after
Bug 512399
Bug 511078
Bug 511235
Bug 511237

When I type ala for alacritty, the results are:
- Palapeli
- KAlarm
- Alacritty
When Alacritty should really be the first, which is the behavior in plasma 6.4.4

This seems to be quite a significant issue among users: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1otkbex/is_anybody_else_having_this_issue_with_krunner/