<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652809> unfortunately shows no solution for the live/submitted distinction, despite an application developer asking specifically how to handle it. I'm not an engineer, and I see no user benefit from switching to GtkSearchEntry. I'm just explaining how the design would need fixing if anyone else wanted to do that. :-)
Whether "local searches with GNOME3 are usually live searches" is not really relevant, for three reasons. First, whether it's local or not isn't relevant: USC searches are currently local, but may become Internet-based in future, while still being live. Second, Gnome 3 has few useful (and hardly any best-in-class) applications, so Ubuntu will indefinitely ship applications from elsewhere, including applications with search functions that can't reasonably be live. And third, notwithstanding your sterling work on the Ubuntu Gnome Remix, I'm sure you understand that the vast majority of people who use Gnome 3 software will never encounter the "Gnome" name -- so we can't reasonably use that to establish a mental model for how search fields behave. As I understand it, neither Firefox (XUL) nor LibreOffice (VCL) use GTK at the widget level. And even if they did, GtkSearchEntry doesn't seem featureful enough for Firefox to be able to use it anyway. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #652809 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652809 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082252 Title: Search widget is not consistent with the rest of the OS Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: For GNOME 3.6, GNOME introduced GtkSearchEntry. Core GNOME apps such as Contacts, Nautilus and System Settings have already switched to it (and there are others that aren't shipped by default in Ubuntu like Boxes and Documents). The rest will likely follow soon. Software Center should use or extend GtkSearchEntry. But if it doesn't, Software Center should at least move the search icon to the right of the search widget and merge the search icon with the clear icon. http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkSearchEntry.html ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: software-center 5.5.0 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-3.9-generic 3.7.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-3-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Nov 22 23:23:32 2012 MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1082252/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
