Version: (using KDE 4.3.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages After installing KUbuntu 9.10 (Karmic), with KDE 4.3.2, the search bar is missing in the UI. I have the konqueror-plugin-searchbar package installed and the 'Search bar' extension is active. There is nothing search bar-related in the dialog for configuring the toolbars.
Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/konq-plugins/+bug/454406 Possibly the same Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550330
dpkg -L konqueror-plugin-searchbar may tell you something interesting -- it doesn't contain anything but some text files. Install konq-plugins instead. dpkg-query -S searchbar.desktop to see where the ghost settings entry comes from (though, you may want to just use the location bar URI filters instead, and save some screen space)
Reopening the bug because I have konq-plugins installed, so that's not the problem. $ dpkg-query -S searchbar.desktop konq-plugins: /usr/share/kde4/apps/konqueror/kpartplugins/searchbar.desktop
@Davor: did newer packages fixed this issue?
@FiNeX: I have the most recent KUbuntu packages, but still no search bar. But when I start Konqueror from the command line, I get the following warning printed on stderr: findServiceByDesktopPath: searchproviders/locate.desktop not found Does this ring any bells about what might be causing the problem?
I tracked the problem down to a single line ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc: 'CurrentEngine=locate' in the [SearchBar] section. The clue was the 'findServiceByDesktopPath: searchproviders/locate.desktop not found' error that Konqueror would print to STDERR when running from the command line. I removed the file and let Konqueror rebuild it, and search bar has appeared in the toolbar again. Sounds like a bug with handling 3.5 configuration files in post-4 KDE.
SVN commit 1058517 by pino: bump xmlgui version to 4, which should be ahead of any kde3 version CCBUG: 213280 M +1 -1 searchbar.rc WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1058517
It looks like that fixed it: I tried installing KDE 4.4.2 (Kubuntu Lucid beta 1) from scratch, and then copied over the faulty konquerorrc, and Konqueror started with the search bar present.