If a content search is performed, and the search term is not found, the terminal cd's to /run/user/1000/kio-fuse-xxxxx/baloosearch STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Dolphin and open the terminal pane 2. Open search - choose Content or Filename 3. type in a string that will get no results OBSERVED RESULT Terminal shows: cd /run/user/1000/kio-fuse-xxxxx/baloosearch EXPECTED RESULT terminal does not change directory SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Plasma, Frameworks from git-master Qt Version: 6.7.3
Can confirm, for me the terminal changes to the folder immediately when searching, I think it should wait until search is done. dolphin 25.03.70 Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
I am closing this as intentional, since the terminal panel is just following the given URL which is same as KURLNavigator has. As far as terminal is concerned, empty search is just an empty folder to it, which makes sense to me. Feel free to reopen this if you disagree :)
While this is intentional, I think it's not a great user experience. Comparing the behavior to what happens when searching through the main UI for files / folders, a user expects that if there are no search results, their view does not change. They also expect that the folder shown in terminal matches the folder they are browsing. With that in mind, I will change this to a feature request: If the case when no results are found, do not change directory in terminal
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