SUMMARY When the File Search (Indexing) is enabled, I can't find a file when I type a part of a word. For example I can find the file with the name "text-example.txt" when I type "example" in the search field, but not when I type "xample". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Enable File Search (indexing) in the System Settings 2. Search a file in Dolphin/Application Launcher/Krunner etc. by typing a part of a word hat is present in the filename. OBSERVED RESULT Filename that contains the entered part of a word is not found EXPECTED RESULT Filename is found SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The problem does not happen when the File Search is disabled. In that case searching for "xample" finds the file "text-example.txt". The option to find the filename by the part of a word can be useful because a lot of Linux terms combine multiple words in a single word. For example I want to find the file with my notes about "libfprint". The file has "libfprint" in the name. I don't remember the full name "libfprint", but only that it contains "print". In that case I won't find the file by typing "print".
Does `baloosearch xample` in a terminal window exhibit the same problem?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Does `baloosearch xample` in a terminal window exhibit the same problem? Yes: $ baloosearch -d ~/Downloads xample Elapsed: 11,9903 msecs $ baloosearch -d ~/Downloads example /home/user/Downloads/text-example.txt Elapsed: 10,6788 msecs
(In reply to Oleksii Zolotarevskyi from comment #0) > The problem does not happen when the File Search is disabled. In that case > searching for "xample" finds the file "text-example.txt". Checking on the current Neon Unstable - when Dolphin does a "filenamesearch" it finds results when searching for "xample" (happens for filename or content searches) However when Dolphin invokes "baloosearch", it gives results for "example" and "examp" but not "xample" ... Think this is a "Confirm"
I've tried to get debug messages from baloosearch but I'm missing something (something obvious?) I've created a ~/.config/QtProject/qtlogging.ini file: [rules] *.debug=false kf.baloo.debug=true And I can see "indexing" entries when I look at: journalctl -f but I don't get anything extra when I try a baloosearch. What am I missing?
*** Bug 453291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Why does this bugzilla instance disallow any priorization, or categorizing? This is not a bug, but currently intentional (so close this as Resolved/Intentional?). But marking this as feature is not possible ...
If you want baloo to find you "example" when you search for "xample", that's a feature request 8-) However, in dolphin, that you get a different behavour searching dependent on whether you have baloo enabled or not, or if you are searching from a folder indexed or not indexed by baloo, that is confusing. I'd flag that as a bug...
(In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #7) > If you want baloo to find you "example" when you search for "xample", that's > a feature request 8-) > > However, in dolphin, that you get a different behavour searching dependent > on whether you have baloo enabled or not, or if you are searching from a > folder indexed or not indexed by baloo, that is confusing. But that is a bug in dolphin then. This bug has "frameworks-baloo" set as product. Even if baloo supported searching for something like "*.xample.*", it can not support searching for files not indexed. So dolphin should (optionally) crawl the filesystem (slow), after having queried baloo (fast, allows metadata/content match).
(In reply to Stefan Brüns from comment #8) > ... So dolphin should (optionally) crawl the filesystem (slow), > after having queried baloo (fast, allows metadata/content match) ... Talking ideal behaviours? I think probably so. Dolphin should know what baloo has indexed, rely on baloo's results where it can, fall back to its own search when it cannot. Something that can give a "seamless" search if you are in your home folder in Fedora. It would be quite a project....