Partial matches does not give the expected resultset
Bug #921727 reported by
markba
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #752259: Dash - Add sub-string matching to Dash search.
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This bug affects 28 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Unity |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-applications |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When searching for a partial string in the application name, nothing is returned whenever this partial string is *not* the first part of the given application name.
For example: when searching for baobap (the disk utilization tool), and entering 'bao', the expected app is in the resultset; note that only a part of the name (first 3 letters) are entered. But when you start at the back, entering 'bap', nothing is returned.
This becomes a real problem when app names are combined of two separate words and the user only wants to search for the last word.
Other good examples:
- gcalctool, the calculator: searching for calc returns nothing
- gedit, the editor: searching for edit returns nothing
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
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| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| joe4379 (joe4379-n) wrote | #2 |
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| Jeff Gosden (jeff-jb-interactive) wrote | #3 |
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| Alexandr Novel (normalex) wrote | #4 |
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| Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko) wrote | #5 |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.