Unity

Application scope not behaving when searching for " " with filters

Bug #1161337 reported by Nick Dedekind
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Invalid
Medium
Michal Hruby
unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

1) Open app scope and empty search string
2) Type " " into search bar (space)
     You should have results
3) Enable a type filter (eg Education)
     All results disapear!
4) clear the search
     Some results, but not what we started with.

Tags: 100scopes

Related branches

lp://staging/~mhr3/unity-lens-applications/strip-query
PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
Paweł Stołowski (community): Approve
Diff: 94 lines (+14/-12)
1 file modified
src/daemon.vala (+14/-12)
Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind)
tags: added: 100scopes
Revision history for this message
Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer) wrote :

My guess is whitespace is removed when tokenizing the search string. So changing the filter sends an empty string through (just a guess though...)

Revision history for this message
Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol) wrote :

The problem seems to be that a search triggered by queue_search_changed sends the whitespace only string as search term but normally Unity doesn't send whitespace only searches to scopes.

To make matters worse, app-lens doesn't consider whitespace only search as empty (in Utils.is_search_empty) and an invalid query string is generated (and the search fails):
WARNING **: Error parsing query 'type:Application AND ((category:Accessibility AND NOT category:Settings)) AND ': Syntax: <expression> AND <expression>

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)
Changed in unity:
importance: High → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Michal Hruby (mhr3)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Michal Hruby (mhr3)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Michal Hruby (mhr3)
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Bug affects only the unity-lens-applications project, not the Unity project.

Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Invalid
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