[Bug 285694] [NEW] search in adept installer inconsistent with manager

[Benjamin Kay]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: adept

Searching in adept manager and adept installer yields different results.
I'm using adept 3.0~beta4ubuntu3 from Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) Beta on an
amd64 machine. See related bugs 70095 and 263438.

I realize that adept installer and adept manager are supposed to behave
differently, since the former is supposed to be "simpler" and thus more
"user friendly". However I think it's odd that adept installer, which is
billed as the "Add/Remove Software" of Kubuntu, can't always find a
package by its name (try searching for hddtemp, for example).

I also think it would be nice to have fairly consistent keywords search
between the two. For example, suppose I (being a power user) am using
adept manager and my Grandma is using installer. I want her to install
plasmoid-weather, so I tell her to search for "weather". But the only
package she finds is "Eat The Whistle", an "arcade-style soccer game".
That's not user-friendly, that's just confusing.

** Affects: adept (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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search in adept installer inconsistent with manager
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