[dolphin] [Bug 428950] New: Dolphin's Search does not respect wildcards and ignores period symbol

[Tyson Tan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428950

            Bug ID: 428950
           Summary: Dolphin's Search does not respect wildcards and
                    ignores period symbol
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 20.08.2
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: search
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: tysontan at tysontan.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Dolphin's Search does not respect wildcards.

For example, if I want to search all files with the extension name .tar:

If I searched for "*.tar"
It returns nothing.

If I searched for ".tar"
It ignores the period and lists everything that has "tar" in it.

Workaround:
1) Search for tar
2) Ctrl+I to call up Filter bar
3) Filter the result with .tar
or
Use KFind (which is not installed by default by many major distros including
Kubuntu)

This problem makes precise searching in Dolphin very confusing and troublesome.
Is it possible for Dolphin to respect wildcards? Or can we let it to at least
respect the period symbol so we can at least have an easy workaround? Thank
you.

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