Thanks Aron. If you had any chance to examine this piece of code. I would strongly suggest to alter dash search algorithm to always fallback to the executable file name, rather than relying on translators to append original strings etc.
2011/5/25 Aron Xu <[email protected]> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:00, Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found a strange issue in dash search. Since I cannot use Chinese to > > search for applications in dash, I tried to type just "synaptic", but it > > does NOT find synaptic package manager, I may need to search for the > > application name in Chinese, which is not doable due to this bug. > > > > However, I found that some other applications DOES work when searching > for > > their executable name, for example I can search for > gnome-activity-journal > > directly in dash, although its display name is in Chinese. > > > > I am aware that I can use alt-f2 to do a fine name search, but isn't it > > better to unify all kind of searches into one place? Could anyone > explain > > this behavior, or if I am unaware of any settings/tricks? > > > > The reason might be the translator simply translated the search > keywords, but not append the relevant strings to the English ones. I > didn't do much in Natty cycle so I don't know the exact situation, but > this is the only reason I can think of. I'll be back in no more than a > month to work on Oneiric hopefully, and might be able to handle this > problem before its release. > > > -- > Regards, > Aron Xu > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663776 Title: [dash] Search field in Unity can not support iBus -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
