SUMMARY Search by similarity (image in this case) will return nothing, not even a "nothing found" message, if the image being searched for is grouped, and that group hasn't been opened. This means if I had no idea which album the image was in, I would not be able to reasonably do my fuzzy search at all. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have a bunch of images 2. Group them 3. Try to find similar image within the grouped images (finding something other than the 1st one) 4. See "observed result" OBSERVED RESULT Nothing shows up as the results. No "nothing found" message. Absolutely no feedback. This changes if the grouped images is expanded ("show grouped images") in Album view. In that case, the matching image is visible. This however requires knowing which album the image is located in, too. EXPECTED RESULT The fuzzy search should show the matching image, or at least the grouped images the matching image is located in. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS I still have KDE Plasma installed, but I am using niri. niri 25.08 (01be0e6) kinfo: Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.18 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.3 Kernel Version: 6.17.9-custom-lowlatency (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The search behavior has already been reported and discussed. You can temporarily show all groups as open in the View menu. Maik
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 436040 ***
Git commit 1f4d7ced9cd623b90d1efabe8a27216020e000d8 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 27/11/2025 at 20:52. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. ignore groups for the people and search views Related: bug 436040, bug 458880 FIXED-IN: 8.9.0 M +3 -3 NEWS M +30 -16 core/app/items/views/digikamitemview.cpp M +11 -2 core/app/items/views/digikamitemview.h M +1 -1 core/app/items/views/digikamitemview_p.h M +0 -2 core/app/views/sidebar/peoplesidebarwidget.cpp M +0 -1 core/app/views/sidebar/peoplesidebarwidget.h M +0 -3 core/app/views/stack/itemiconview.cpp M +17 -0 core/app/views/stack/itemiconview_sidebars.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/1f4d7ced9cd623b90d1efabe8a27216020e000d8