Bug 208259 - Support wildcards in filter bar.
Summary: Support wildcards in filter bar.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: bars: filter (show other bugs)
Version: 16.12.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2009-09-23 11:15 UTC by Diego
Modified: 2012-09-02 19:46 UTC (History)
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Description Diego 2009-09-23 11:15:04 UTC 
Version:           1.3 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1), 4.3.1-3.fc10 Fedora)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.29.6-99.fc10.i686

Don't know if this is a bug or a wish.

Dolphin filter bar doesn't seem to handle wildcards very well.

Try writing "partofafilename*abunchofendingchars": you'll probably get nothing in output.

Partly related bugs: bug #155986 and bug #202002 .
Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2009-09-24 19:07:21 UTC 
Thanks for the report!

> Don't know if this is a bug or a wish.
> Dolphin filter bar doesn't seem to handle wildcards very well.

The filter bar uses regular regular expression matching, and not wildcard matching, at the moment. Changing that behaviour would be a wish.

It would of course break things for users who rely on regular expressions, but it might be that people are in general more familiar with wildcards than with regular expressions.
Comment 2 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:20:05 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 3 Todd 2012-09-02 19:46:06 UTC 
This works for me now as of 4.9.  Please re-open with specific steps for something you want to do but can't if it isn't fixed for you.