From 3084a4e11e54b71065a408c7d288489bc72ea8a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alessio Bonfiglio <alessio.bonfiglio@mail.polimi.it>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:52:55 +0100
Subject: filterbar: Add support to match case and glob patterns for the filter
 bar

Currently, Dolphin's filter bar defaults to plain text, but it actually has a hidden regex functionality too: it tries to auto-detect and switch to a regular expression if characters like '*', '?', or '[' are present in the search string.
This approach has a couple of issues. First, the regex/wildcard functionality is completely hidden from the user. Second, the auto-detection is flawed because those are perfectly valid characters in Linux filenames. If a user tries to filter for a file literally named [draft].txt, the auto-switching kicks in and causes unexpected behavior.

This MR fixes this by making the filtering modes explicit through a ComboBox at the side of the filter bar, with the options 'Plain Text', 'Glob' and 'Regular Expression'. It also adds a button to toggle the case sensitive matching. A visual feedback for when the user is inputting an invalid expression has also been implemented by turning the bar background red and making appear an error symbol.
---
 src/views/dolphinview.cpp | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 src/views/dolphinview.h   | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/views')

diff --git a/src/views/dolphinview.cpp b/src/views/dolphinview.cpp
index b48e1ae74..2213e2c82 100644
--- a/src/views/dolphinview.cpp
+++ b/src/views/dolphinview.cpp
@@ -639,6 +639,26 @@ QStringList DolphinView::mimeTypeFilters() const
     return m_model->mimeTypeFilters();
 }
 
+void DolphinView::setFilterMode(KFileItemModelFilter::FilterMode mode)
+{
+    m_model->setFilterMode(mode);
+}
+
+KFileItemModelFilter::FilterMode DolphinView::filterMode() const
+{
+    return m_model->filterMode();
+}
+
+void DolphinView::setFilterCaseSensitive(bool caseSensitive)
+{
+    m_model->setFilterCaseSensitive(caseSensitive);
+}
+
+bool DolphinView::isFilterCaseSensitive() const
+{
+    return m_model->isFilterCaseSensitive();
+}
+
 void DolphinView::requestStatusBarText()
 {
     if (m_statJobForStatusBarText) {
diff --git a/src/views/dolphinview.h b/src/views/dolphinview.h
index 67233b668..6aa5b595d 100644
--- a/src/views/dolphinview.h
+++ b/src/views/dolphinview.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 #include "dolphin_export.h"
 #include "dolphintabwidget.h"
+#include "kitemviews/private/kfileitemmodelfilter.h"
 #include "tooltips/tooltipmanager.h"
 
 #include "config-dolphin.h"
@@ -276,6 +277,18 @@ public:
     void setMimeTypeFilters(const QStringList &filters);
     QStringList mimeTypeFilters() const;
 
+    /**
+     * Sets the filtering mode of the currently used nameFilter.
+     */
+    void setFilterMode(KFileItemModelFilter::FilterMode mode);
+    KFileItemModelFilter::FilterMode filterMode() const;
+
+    /**
+     * Enables or disable the caseSensitive matching of the currently used nameFilter.
+     */
+    void setFilterCaseSensitive(bool caseSensitive);
+    bool isFilterCaseSensitive() const;
+
     /**
      * Tells the view to generate an updated status bar text. The result
      * is returned through the statusBarTextChanged(QString statusBarText) signal.
-- 
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