Comment 1 for bug 1055247

Hi Andreas.

Thanks for your interest.

How things currently work is as follows:
- app-install-data extracts the desktop files from all packages and ships these
- software-center will display in the main screen the search results for packages with a desktop file - this is what is happening to gdevilspie
- software-center will hide all remaining search results (ie for packages without desktop files) behind a button 'show XX technical items' which is located in the bottom left of the window (it is a known issue that most people don't notice this) - this is what is happening to devilspie2
- if however there is an *exact* match between the search term and the name of a package, then software-center will 'upgrade' it and treat it as if it had a desktop file - this is what happens to devilspie when searching for devilspie