More search issues, after Bug 512399 Bug 511078 Bug 511235 Bug 511237 When I type ala for alacritty, the results are: - Palapeli - KAlarm - Alacritty When Alacritty should really be the first, which is the behavior in plasma 6.4.4 This seems to be quite a significant issue among users: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1otkbex/is_anybody_else_having_this_issue_with_krunner/
*** Bug 512350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can confirm the search result ordering on Plasma built from git-master. This affects both krunner and Kickoff Application Launcher
(In reply to Connor Chang from comment #0) > When I type ala for alacritty, the results are: > - Palapeli > - KAlarm > - Alacritty > When Alacritty should really be the first, which is the behavior in plasma As I described in 511078 this happens for me and several others on 6.5.3 as well. In my case I wanted LACT, and typing "lac" gives me Alacritty first. Looking for "gim" will bring up vim, qimgv, libre office impress, divinity original sin, and only then gimp. Looking for "gnu" does bring it up first, but I doubt most people looking for gimp would use that search term. I also get btrfs-assistant before btop with a "bt", which is admittedly a lot closer, but still not as expected.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6104
Git commit 1e064d14205a18f85479947f31394a3ce16946c6 by Harald Sitter. Committed on 16/12/2025 at 19:34. Pushed by sitter into branch 'master'. servicerunner: when a key starts with the search term, bump it this leads to better results when fuzzy matches are only slightly different but one item has the startswith advantage A +19 -0 runners/services/autotests/fixtures/Alacritty.desktop A +12 -0 runners/services/autotests/fixtures/org.kde.palapeli.desktop M +15 -1 runners/services/autotests/servicerunnertest.cpp M +16 -1 runners/services/servicerunner.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/1e064d14205a18f85479947f31394a3ce16946c6
Git commit b762202c8cb41d4c86b4838a4a3e6273da8d3989 by Harald Sitter. Committed on 16/12/2025 at 21:50. Pushed by sitter into branch 'Plasma/6.5'. servicerunner: when a key starts with the search term, bump it this leads to better results when fuzzy matches are only slightly different but one item has the startswith advantage (cherry picked from commit 1e064d14205a18f85479947f31394a3ce16946c6) Co-authored-by: Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org> A +19 -0 runners/services/autotests/fixtures/Alacritty.desktop A +12 -0 runners/services/autotests/fixtures/org.kde.palapeli.desktop M +15 -1 runners/services/autotests/servicerunnertest.cpp M +16 -1 runners/services/servicerunner.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b762202c8cb41d4c86b4838a4a3e6273da8d3989