Searching the KMenu via its search box in Kubuntu Xenial (16.04) is no longer very helpful. For example, when I search for "PlayOnLinux" using the search box and type "pl", I see: 1. Update Manager 2. Discover (Software center) 3. Playonlinux If I type "Pl" (with a capital P), I don't see any of the above results. If I type "pla" OR "Pla", I get the same results: 1. Google Earth (3D planet viewer) 2. Update Manager 3. Discover (Software center) 4. ImageMagick (display Q16) 5. Clementine (Clementine Music Player) 6. ImageMagick (display Q16) 7. Amarok (Audio player) 8. PlayOnLinux (6 is a duplicate entry of 4) Reproducible: Always Expected Results: This is highly inaccurate especially when considering that PlayOnLInux is favourited on my system. And shouldn't the search give preference to the application names rather than their descriptions? And what's with the random case sensitivity? This is certainly not how things were in whatever version of KDE I was using in Kubuntu 15.10. (I can also no longer find out version details for KDE from the help menu of apps like Konsole.) Thanks.
I should add that removing playonlinux from my favourites does not impact the results listed above. And I'm not sure if this is an edge case either as I can't reproduce this with all my results. However, searching for the string "up", for example, does not list "Update Manager" in my results at all. Something definitely appears to be wonky.
Related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383812
Thanks for the report Xenophon. Can you please test and confirm if this issue is still occurring or if this bug report can be marked as resolved. I've set the bug status to "needsinfo" pending your response, please change back to "reported" or "resolved" when you respond, thanks. As for the information in application menus, it's now in Kinfocenter.
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!