https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512350
Bug ID: 512350
Summary: The search results order in the start menu (Kickoff
Application Launcher) could be better
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version First 6.5.2
Reported In:
Platform: Debian testing
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.0
Created attachment 186958
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=186958&action=edit
How the search results look like when searching for 'info'.
SUMMARY
The search results order in the start menu (Kickoff Application Launcher) could
be better.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install the MediaInfo and Hardinfo2 programs.
2. Open the start menu (Kickoff Application Launcher).
3. Type: info or Info (to search for the Info Center).
4. Look at how the search results are ordered.
OBSERVED RESULT
The search results are ordered like in the attached printscreen.
Without the 'Info Center' being the first one so I cannot just press Enter
after search to open it.
EXPECTED RESULT
I expected a better ordering for the search results, with the one that I was
looking for at the top, so I could just press Enter to open it.
I expected that that the results are ordered by this priority:
1. Exact match info -> info (an item called just info).
2. Exact match, but case-insensitive (an item called both info and Info or with
other letter upper or lower case).
3. Starts (from left to right) with info (like infoCenter, infoProgram).
4. Starts (from left to right with case-insesintive info (like InfoCenter,
infoProgram).
5. Starts (from left to right) with info, but is followed by a space (like info
Center, info Program).
6. Starts (from left to right with case-insensitive info (like Info Center,
info Program).
7. Anywhere in the string, but first the ones that have info after a space or
uppercased first (like Media info or MediaInfo).
8. Anywhere in the programs's name.
9. Anywhere in the program's comment.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1. I have also trying to increase the precision a bit by using the exact case,
so searching for 'Info' instead of 'info', but the same thing happens, the:
MediaInfo
Hardinfo2
Come before the 'Info Center'.
2. I tried to look o for the other word (center) and other strange thing happen
as I get them like this:
Mission Center
Info Center
Help Center
Welcome Center
Why is Mission Center before Info Center?
Why when both are equal priority like in this case as both have center in them,
both have it with uppercase first letter, the alphabetic order is not
considered for higher priority?
Or the fact that Info Center is a KDE + Qt program, natively installed for
Debian (.deb), unlike Mission Center a non-KDE program, written in GTK and
installed non-natively with Flatpak?
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