https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490972
--- Comment #11 from Adam Fontenot <adam.m.fontenot+...@gmail.com> --- My duplicate report had the following proposal for improving this, which I think is a good one although it doesn't really eliminate the need for better communication: For the two letter search, show all results that begin with those two letters, as before. *Also*, however, perform the same search for just the first letter. *Filter* these results with the two character string using the broader search patterns used for 3+ letters, and add anything that fits to the results displayed to the user. This would be relatively cheap, and have the advantage of solving what I think is the bigger issue here, the visual glitch of going from 1 to 2 to 3 letters. E.g. if I type "s", the top result is System Settings, which is in fact what I usually want. If I then type "e" I get no results, because there are no items beginning with "se" (despite "settings" beginning with "se"). If I type "t" I suddenly have suggestions again, and the top result is once again System Settings. This is weird because System Settings disappears after two letters even though I'm using what is probably the most sensible way of searching for it. If I happen to be typing rapidly and hit the enter key after two letters, nothing happens. With my proposal above, System Settings would *remain* the top result after "se". I also like the idea of splitting the words suggested above, so that "LibreOffice Writer" appears for "wr". So while this specific issue probably can't be fixed - you can't do the full search for < 3 characters without returning nonsense results, the heuristics could be improved so that this doesn't feel like such an obvious bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
