Fallback to simple search if baloo finds no results (!642) · Merge requests · System / Dolphin

Kristen McWilliam requested to merge merritt/dolphin:search_fallback into master Oct 27, 2023

Baloo has had repeated issues with finding files, recurring for years.

Currently a search with indexing enabled can fail to return results for files that do exist. This is a terrible user experience, especially for a core part of a computing experience.

This change adds a fallback so that if a search with baloo returns no results, we fall back to a simple search to ensure that if the file(s) exist, they will be found instead of the user being told that they don't exist.

While a true fix for baloo is needed, this change ensures that the user experience is good in the meantime.

Fallback to simple search if baloo finds no results

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