Should I expect searching in KRunner to return hits in my Kmail mail files? That doesn't seem to happen. (Fedora 22).

How can I tell if the mail is, or is not, being indexed? If it is being indexed, why is it not returned in searches?

Searching *within* KMail ony works in the current folder, which is rather useless.

I have not changed any of the Search target defaults in System Settings. They're all enabled.

One of KDE's selling points is its desktop-wide search capability. But, I haven't seen search of Kmail files work, on multiple distributions, in months.

KMail is kdelibs 4.x based, while KRunner is KF5 based in Fedora 22. As PIM was not yet ported to KF5 (scheduled for Applications 15.08), the KRunner code was not adjusted to handle this case.

einar wrote:KMail is kdelibs 4.x based, while KRunner is KF5 based in Fedora 22. As PIM was not yet ported to KF5 (scheduled for Applications 15.08), the KRunner code was not adjusted to handle this case.

So the mail is, in fact, indexed? Are there alternative search tools other than KRunner that do work?

This specific functionality is a primary reason for me to use KDE. It's absence without any effort to advise me it is missing is annoying and disappointing. The user is shown nothing during an installation or later that informs him this core functionality is missing.

It is naive and unrealistic to imagine that users would know this: Developers and distribution packagers do not frequent the places where users gather and users are not welcome in the places developers gather (where this information, undoubtedly, was available.) Very high walls exist between those places.

Until this regression is corrected, KDE should display on first use a notice that this, and any other similar broken functionality, is not available.