Comment 5 for bug 879146

Its good to know you are up to test my extensions.. I am doing some changes
here Will tell you when done :)

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Mike Auty <email address hidden>wrote:

> On 21/10/11 21:22, Seif Lotfy wrote:
> > Lets try to fix the "selection" bug in the extensions first... Are you up
> to
> > that :P
>
> Errrr, we can try, but my Javascript's not up to speed (and tracking
> down the Params issue was the first look I'd ever had at the gnome-shell
> API)... 5:)
>
> I already tried emitting the "search-completed" signal with an
> appropriate set of additional results, but I wasn't sure the lists I was
> handing back contained the right thing, and it didn't seem to affect the
> selection.
>
> I'm happy to test out any patches you may have for the extension, but I
> wouldn't really know where to start making a fix on my own. Let me know
> what you want to do next?
>
> Mike 5:)
>
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> Title:
> [Patch] Enter doesn't launch applications in gnome-shell
> zeitgeistsearch extension
>
> Status in Zeitgeist Extensions:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> When using the ZeitgeistSearch gnome-shell extension, there is a
> silent error that occurs in activateResult for the App- and Settings-
> AsyncSearchProviders. This is due to a call to Params, which hasn't
> been defined. I've attached a patch which solves this particular
> problem by defining Params at the top of the file.
>
> I'm also working on gnome bug 662341 which is related, whereby adding
> results asynchronously means that they are never selected first in the
> list, so you can't simply start typing an application and press Enter
> to start it. By default, all the asynchronous providers return an
> empty list as initialResults, and gnome-shell doesn't update the
> selection when new results are added, meaning the search buttons (such
> as Wikipedia) are always selected by default. I don't know whether
> that's best handled in the extension or in gnome-shell, so please let
> me know if I should file a new bug here instead.
>
> If there's any other information I can provide, or tests I can run,
> please let me know...
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