[dolphin] [Bug 452099] New: Location bar should not match from beginning of path, but rather first match

[shenlebantongying]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452099

            Bug ID: 452099
           Summary: Location bar should not match from beginning of path,
                    but rather first match
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Other
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: bars: location
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: shenlebantongying at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Right now, if you type after the location bar an autocomplete popup will show
up listing subfolders/files.

Problem is that it matches strictly from the beginning of the strings, and it's
pretty numb!

It doesn't work on scenarios like:

.../2022-something
.../2022-anotherthing
.../2022-morestfaffs
.../2023-nice
.../2023-ok

If you want to jump directly to one of the `2022-  `, you have to type `2022-`
reluctantly. 

If the match starts from the first match, you can just type `anotherthing` and
tab select `2022-anotherthing`, quick and fast.

Even for regular folders without prefix patterns, this can still help, because
sometimes memory only remembers the later part of the folder name.

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Probably can go further: 

The result should be fuzzy search ( in a mode that strictly put matched result
at top), so that the autocomplete will tolerate human errors.

---

Prior art:

Dolphin's own filter  :-)

Autocomplete is a process of narrowing when the user typing. 

A better location bar be like -> type to filter to a single or a few results,
then use tab to select the one.

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