It seems that some characters like underscore or minus create word boundaries that makes it impossible to search for some types of partial string crossing that boundary. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create test files echo "text" > "aaaa bbbb cccc.txt" echo "text" > "aaaa-bbbb-cccc.txt" echo "text" > "aaaa_bbbb_cccc.txt" 2. Search with a partial search term not bordering _ or - baloosearch "aaaa-bb" baloosearch "aaaa_bb" OBSERVED RESULT No search results are found. EXPECTED RESULT The appropriate items should be found. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: NixOS 22.11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0 Qt Version: 5.15.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Searching for baloosearch "aaaa bb" shows all the result, spaced and connected with - or _.
Something similar in: Bug 378726 Bug 388857 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388857#c11) Bug 434589 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434589#c3)
It's clear that this happens, confirming. Will flag as a duplicate of Bug 434589
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 434589 ***