[dolphin] [Bug 458761] New: Dynamically change between index file and regular search

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458761

            Bug ID: 458761
           Summary: Dynamically change between index file and regular
                    search
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 22.08.0
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: search
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: ryu.ketsueki at outlook.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

I was investigating the behavior of Baloo and Dolphin when I noticed something
curious. When searching for already indexed filed through Dolphin, the search
is near instantaneous in my case. But for the non indexed filed, they don't
even show up in the results. For comparison, I decided to deactivate the file
indexer temporarily to see how Dolphin behaves. Now it takes a few seconds to
search through the directories but it did find the files that weren't indexed.

This thing with the indexing happens often when searching in places the file
indexer didn't run, like removable drives or other partitions. As an
experiment, I created a symlink on my home folder, which was indexed, to my
steamapps folder, which is inside the .steam/root/ folder. It wasn't indexed,
possibly because of the config for indexing hidden files being on "no". It also
happens if the symlink is to a different partition on disk. For those cases,
wouldn't it be better if the regular search is used instead of looking over the
index file from Baloo? That way it doesn't show "No items matching the search".
I assume it is one of the reasons many people think Baloo doesn't work.

Could well put this in the 15-minute bug list if possible. I like how I can use
tags for files and Baloo is necessary for that.

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