Dash - searching for generic keywords in unity lens doesn't yield (all) results
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayatana Design |
Fix Committed
|
High
|
John Lea | ||
Unity |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
unity-lens-applications |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
on unity 11.04,11.10 seraching for "game", "internet" or such generic keywords in the lenses does not show all relevant applications..
this is a showstopper bug for me and other people i talked to
i understand the difficulty of insuffiecient metadata for applications but escpecially for newbys and "non-geek"s this is at least a big MUST.
You DO have descriptions and categories in software center.. can't these info be used in the lens too?
Desired solution:
Stick to the X-GNOME-Keywords field in the .desktop files, but improve the indexed data.
- Minimally: Assure that key apps have good keywords in their packages
- Best: Get the word out to have upstreams put good data in there. Help upstreams getting this done.
Also:
12:51:48 <Trevinho> what about not only considering the Keywords .desktop file field (that is alredy supported, for applications that specify it) but also the category of each application?
12:52:23 <Trevinho> I mean, if I search for "internet" or "games", I expect that all the programs under that category are shown into the dash, isn't it?
12:53:39 <Trevinho> Of course, programs that have full matching (ie. name contains that string) would get the priority, but if I search for "System" I expect that all the applications under "System" category are shown, not only System Monitor for example...
13:21:02 <JohnLea> yes considering the category of the application would be an improvement
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | none → backlog |
tags: | added: udp |
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
summary: |
- searching for generic keywords in unity lens doesn't yeld (all) results + Dash - searching for generic keywords in unity lens doesn't yeld (all) + results |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Makes sense to me, implementing this change would also fix bug 833610