[dolphin] [Bug 523842] Add filtered items to UI

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523842

--- Comment #2 from Lee <[email protected]> ---
Hi there.  Here's what happened; I copied a bunch of folders over to my new
Linux machine, and these folders contained files named "desktop.ini" that I no
longer needed.  I could see these files when browsing the folders in Dolphin. 
However, when I used search in Dolphin for "desktop.ini", it would not show
these files in the search results.  I tried "desktop.ini", "desktop" and "ini",
and nothing was ever returned.  I looked in KDE System Settings->Search, but
there seemed to be nothing that would impact this.

After discussing this on the KDE reddit, I learned that the Dolphin search
function is controlled by Baloo, and the Baloo config file (baloofilerc)
contains a list of filetypes to exclude from search, and this included ".ini"
files.  After removing ".ini" from the exclusion list, the Dolphin search
returned the files in the search results.

My request is that the list of filtered files is made available to edit/manage
in the KDE system settings->Search box, so that users know this facility is
available without having to go to the backend file to change this. Other Baloo
settings are available in there, so it would be good if this could be added as
well.

Hope this makes sense, let me know if you need more info.

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