Application dashoard: search is quite erratic

Search in application menus/dashboard is pretty erratic and illogical, i run wrong applications many times.

Example:

When I enter ‘c’ I see: chrashed processes viewer, calculator

when i enter “ch” : there is nothing displayed !

when I add next letter ‘r’ so “chr” : google chrome, KDE connect

why there was no chrome when I entered only “c” or “ch” ??

other example, when I enter “cod” or “code”: Kate is on the first place! and visual studio code on the second !! WHY ?? I have to use extra arrow to select VSCode ….

when I enter “mo” I can see mouse

when I add “u”, so “mou” together: there is no mouse app anymore ! only solaar

That doesn’t make any sense !!

Yes, this came up recently as a krunner thread, but it affects menus.

Basically, the FUZZY search is really messed up… first I noticed is trying to relaunch my conky (I have a script called ‘conky-again’ which always came top on ‘conk’ or ‘gain’; but now it’s likely to come last.

Last time it was discussed was here, I think…

There’s a fix in the works, so hang in.

Here’s that bug:

So meantime, type slowly and pay attention - I’ve had all kinds of surprise popups and random actions out of this bug.

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I’d add that fuzzy search wasn’t ideal long before 6.5.0 version

For sure, it could use some improvement, but this edition seems more erratic than anything else.