https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428194
Bug ID: 428194
Summary: Search is not language agnostic
Product: krunner
Version: 5.20.1
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Search terms for krunner are bound to language defined by system locale.
For example on english locale power actions (shutdown/restart/suspend) can be
found by their respective terms. However in russian locale you have to enter
localized terms (выключить/перезагрузить/спящий режим)
The same holds for application search in cases where additional terms are
present. For example, konsole can be found by typing in "konsole", or
"terminal" in english locale, while in russian you have to enter "konsole" or
"терминал" - the latter being translated term for "terminal"
This behaviour is inconvenient, since it prompts for an additional layout
switch when english keyboard layout is default (and it might be default for
variety of reasons, among them the fact that, for example, terminal commands
can not be entered in russian layouts, due to incompatible character sets)
This issue is not exclusive to russian, all languages that have translated
terms are somewhat affected. Even for languages that have an ascii-based
charset, while layout switch is not required, there is an issue that user is
expected to enter translated term, while they might not be aware of such
requirement. For example it was independently confirmed that in order to
execute shutdown in german locale, user have to enter "herunterfahren" while
"shutdown" won't work.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Prepare a system with locale that has translated search terms for actions,
for example russian
2. Try to execute search with original (english) terms, for example: "suspend"
OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing is found
EXPECTED RESULT
Search engine should allow search for original (english) versions of terms
regardless of system language
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Any linux distribution
Any KDE version
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