Another great feature, which users have been awaiting for a long time, is the search text filter everywhere in digiKam for KDE3. It will be available with the 0.9.3-rc1 release.

Like you can see in screenshot below new text fields are available in left and right sidebar tabs :

• Album Folder view.
• Tags Folder view.
• Search Folder view.
• Tags Filter view.

If you enter a text in this widget, digiKam will parse tree-view contents and will display all matching results witch include this string. If something is found, field become green, else red.
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