[ubuntu-uk] Ayatana / Lens searches for tokens only

[Bruno Girin]

Having said this, "handb" and "handbrake" should work. In which case,
this sounds like a defect against unity-lens-applications should be raised.

On 25/09/12 17:44, Alan Bell wrote:
> lenses listen to the seach query, they get a callback when it changes.
> They can then use what the user has typed in whatever way they want to
> get results. This means that one could be doing a substring search,
> others an exact match, others case insensitive etc. So if it isn't
> doing a very good search this is a bug in the individual lens, not a
> general thing across all of them. There is a tradeoff between
> fuzzyness and accuracy. Personally I am pretty unimpressed with the
> results of fuzzy searches (like the HUD does) because it produces
> random unexpected results that kind of anticipate me failing to type
> stuff correctly. If I typed "and" I would *not* expect something
> starting with H to get in the way of what I was actually looking for,
> if I wanted something starting with H I would have typed it.
>
> On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
>> Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire
>> words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in
>> capitalisation.
>>
>> For instance, I have Handbrake installed. The desktop file gives a
>> description of "HandBrake". The capital letter B is significant. If I
>> search for "hand" or "brake", it appears. If I search for "Handbrake",
>> "handb", or anything that crosses the capital B, the search fails.
>>
>> Further, if I search for "and", it doesn't find HandBrake at all.
>> Searches
>> must begin at the start of a word. This *really* needs to be fixed.
>>
>> The Mint menu doesn't have a problem with any of these.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tyler
>>
>> On 2012-09-25 15:26, Bill B. wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I am curious as to why there is all this fuss about a
>>> not-yet-fully-released dash and how it has distracted all attention
>>> away
>>> from the dash's real problems.
>>>
>>> As an example I would cite the failure of the apps lens to properly
>>> show
>>> required applications... I run 12.4.1 fully updated and have a few [12]
>>> games installed on my netbook for when I'm away and bored.  I know I
>>> have 12 games installed but have yet to find a search to display
>>> them as
>>> a result.  e.g "games" displays 1, "game" displays 6... perhaps for the
>>> whole selection I should type "oi! get it right"!
>>>
>>> Good move, you clever Canonocallies... nothing like a bit of fog to
>>> cover up in true American presidential election stylie  ;)
>>>
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