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-n...@kde.org
Reporter: shenlebantongy...@gmail.com
CC: kfm-de...@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.
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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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