Bug 452004 - KCommandBar: Allow searching for commands in English regardless of system locale
Summary: KCommandBar: Allow searching for commands in English regardless of system locale
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kconfigwidgets
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2022-03-28 15:52 UTC by Gabriel
Modified: 2022-03-29 10:22 UTC (History)
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Description Gabriel 2022-03-28 15:52:41 UTC 
SUMMARY
It would be useful to be able to make searches in KCommandBar in English, even when that is not the system language. It can't be expected that you know the translation of an action in your own language.

This is a suggestion originally from https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/tpvc0d/comment/i2fi10p/
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-03-28 21:49:40 UTC 
Yeah we did this for KRunner and System Settings' search. Could be nice and consistent to do it here too.
Comment 2 Waqar Ahmed 2022-03-29 07:06:56 UTC 
Unfortunately not that easy for command bar to do this as command bar only get pointers to existing actions.
Comment 3 Gabriel 2022-03-29 09:04:59 UTC 
Ah, I had a feeling it could be like that. So there would first need to be a system in place where the apps can expose the untranslated strings to the command bar?
Comment 4 Waqar Ahmed 2022-03-29 10:22:31 UTC 
No, the apps shouldn't need to care about this. There just needs to be a way to do reverse lookups for translated strings to get their corresponding untranslated string.

Maybe there is a way already