Application Launcher / Krunner: is this a bug or a quirky search logic?

[pglpm]

At the moment my only enabled Krunner search plugin is the "Applications" one. But I don't understand what's the logic behind the displayed results and the search text in the Application Launcher. Here's an example – please note that it's just an example, and I see the same behaviour will all programs/applications.

In the KDE Menu Editor I created three applications. Their names are "tola12345", "tolb12345", "tolc12345". Their description and comment are "Colour application A", "Colour application B", "Colour application C". Each launches some pdf file with xdg-open.

Now if in the Application Launcher I input "tol", the results show only "tolc12345". If I input one more letter 'a' (so the search string is "tola"), then the results show only "tola12345". If I delete 'a' and input 'b' then the results show only "tolb12345". See snapshot at the bottom.

My questions:

• Why don't I get to see all three results "tola12345", ..., "tolc12345" when the search string is just 'tol'?
• Why do I see only "tolc12345" rather than "tola1234", given that the latter comes first alphabetically?
• How, more generally, do I set a larger number of search results?
• Is this a bug? Or am I misunderstanding the search logic?

Thank you for your help!

[claydoh]

Is this a bug?

I'd say so.
But if there has been a fix, it will be one, it would be in Plasma 6.

It *seems* to work correctly for me here on Plasma 6.4.3.

[pglpm]

I'd say so.
But if there has been a fix, it will be one, it would be in Plasma 6.

Thank you for the info! Should I report a bug? If it's working correctly for you, then KDE must already be aware of this... But I didn't manage to find anything about this behaviour.

[claydoh]

I'd report the bug if you see the same behavior in Plasma 6, as Plasma 5 is at the end of the road, and won't see any sort of update.
My not seeing this might be from not doing it the same way you are.

[pglpm]

I'd report the bug if you see the same behavior in Plasma 6, as Plasma 5 is at the end of the road, and won't see any sort of update.
My not seeing this might be from not doing it the same way you are.

Mine was just an example to make this strange behaviour clear. But I see this with all applications. I think you would have noticed already if not all possible matches were coming up, so likely it's been resolved in Plasma 6.