https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428950
SigHunter <sighun...@gmx.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sighun...@gmx.de --- Comment #3 from SigHunter <sighun...@gmx.de> --- I stumbled upon this behavior yesterday and IMO it is very confusing to users and took me some time to analyze: In short: baloo enabled (default): basic wildcard search (like *.jpg for all jpg files) works ONLY for indexed folders but wildcards don't work for non indexed folders and network shares mounted via dolphin baloo disabled: basic wildcards never work (*.jpg no results) The documentation https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/dolphin/dolphin/quick-tips.html specificially states that wildcards should yield the same results as without wildcards "The search is case insensitive, and does not require surrounding wildcards (*foo* and foo are equivalent), but you can use wildcards inside the search term. * will match zero or more characters, ? only one single character." Expected fix: the search provider for everything that is not baloo indexed (I guess this is kio_filenamesearch) should support wildcards, like searching in baloo indexed folders does. the search syntax should be identical. having different search results depending on search location is confusing and feels unreliable. I want to be able to trust the file search. Sure, using regex could be a workaround for advanced users, but is only necessary for those non-indexed folders or when baloo is disabled. you have to specifically know this behavior and regex is not user friendly, a basic *.jpg search should always work, like it does in mlocate or windows Dolphin 23.04.01 and KDE 5.27.5 on Gentoo -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.