[dolphin] [Bug 444896] FR: Search using wildcards does not work

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444896

--- Comment #5 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to Adrian Fluturel from comment #4)
> ... in a rabbit hole
That I can understand :-]

Yes, I think there's an assumption that you can use "*" (as a wildcard) and a
surprise when it doesn't get you anything. It's a pretty gnarly problem though.

Dolphin makes it quite difficult to see whether you are using baloosearch
versus filenamesearch. That makes sense to me (well...). The ideal would be
that both give the same results except that baloo does the indexing work "up
front" and gives you the results instantly and the filenamesearch does a slower
"there and then" search. There are traps though that only start making sense
when you know which is being used.

What dolphin does have is a "filter" (try a Ctrl-I) that gives you an
additional dialog box at the bottom of the window. That *does* seem to
understand wildcards so you can do a search, get a rough collection and then
filter out what you want. It's well hidden though, would be nice if it "fitted
in" with the dolphin search dialogs.

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