Bug 438507 - No search results returned.
Summary: No search results returned.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Menu (Kicker) widget (show other bugs)
Version: 5.22.0
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL:
Keywords:
: 438603 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-06-12 13:58 UTC by Paul
Modified: 2022-09-16 14:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Composite screen-shot showing no search results returned. (46.18 KB, image/jpeg)
2021-06-12 13:58 UTC, Paul
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Description Paul 2021-06-12 13:58:49 UTC
Created attachment 139256 [details]
Composite screen-shot showing no search results returned.

SUMMARY
Since the update to 5.22 the "Application Menu 2.0" no longer returns any items when using search.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enter a search term (for a known to exist application)
2. 
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
No results returned

EXPECTED RESULT
The item searched for

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210610
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.12.9-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 2 × AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NV84

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
See attached composite screen-shot showing a search for, as an example, "Kate". No results are returned.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-06-15 23:08:20 UTC
*** Bug 438603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 jm-ejC9o 2022-06-06 16:57:44 UTC
I've been experiencing the same issue a while back after migrating from Fedora 33 to 35 and it went away after some fiddling.

Now I'm experiencing it again on a different machine (NixOS / Plasma 5.23.3) but with a comparable KDE setup.

Switching to an alternative component (Application Dashboard/Application Launcher) does not help, they also return 0 result for any search (not only snap/flatpacks as the duplicate suggests).

I think I've figured out how to reproduce:
- Change KRunner's configuration to disable all plugins except Windows
- Switch Application Menu to one of it's alternative

And to fix it:
- Enable "Applications" back in KRunner's plugins
- Switch to an alternative again (doesn't matter which)

If the relation between KRunner and the Application Menu (and its alternative) is intended it should probably be explicit
Comment 3 Paul 2022-09-16 14:16:45 UTC
(In reply to jm-ejC9o from comment #2)
...
> And to fix it:
> - Enable "Applications" back in KRunner's plugins
> - Switch to an alternative again (doesn't matter which)
> 
> If the relation between KRunner and the Application Menu (and its
> alternative) is intended it should probably be explicit

Yes, good find, (I seemed to have missed this back in June).

Confirming that if "Applications" is disabled in KRunner's plugins then Search in Application Menu fails.

Also found that a logout/login works as an alternative to "Switch to an alternative again (doesn't matter which)"