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Wishlist: Improve
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Title:
Wishlist:
I'd strongly advice against implementing (4) in its original formulation
(Only search application names, not descriptions). In many cases, the
name of an application is not known to the user, he/she only knows what
to do with it. For example, Oneiric ships deja-dup for backup -- not
including the
The reason to implement (4) is because after implementing (1), not
implementing (4) would make far too many matches. The kind of search
algorithm used in Gnome Do or Synapse is designed for small strings of
text, not large ones. Most paragraphs would match any reasonably short
string of common
When reporting bugs, it's generally better to concentrate on describing
a problem, and leave suggested solutions (if any) to the end. Assuming a
solution often results in a bug report drifting until it gets marked
Invalid because a different solution was chosen. Or it clumps together
problems that
full agreement with zorgoth, I'd love to use only the Dash but not
getting the most often used apps by typing their first letter just don't
cut it.
Gnome DO provides that for any user apparently by promoting the most
often used apps and shortcuts used to get to them (or if it doesn't then
the
if it is true what's standing here, the search function is ridiculously
primitive!
just stumbled upon it while searching the german expression for
calculator (rechner) which brings up unrelated stuff. as the program
is named taschenrechner only ẗasch brings it up... you got to be
kidding.
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We also need to pay attention to tasks an app does. For example:
network returns the network tool, but typing DNS doesn't.
Perhaps we can index an application's strings to make this easier.
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if one search for compiz it's not matched, only if you know that the
command is ccsm then you write cc you get it among the results.
that's because you use alt-f2 right? if you click on the ubuntu logo or
use the dash it would match on compiz but alt-f2 is to run a specific
command
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I agree, I expend several minutes trying to execute compizconfig-
settings-manager just because I didn't know the exact command name, if
one search for compiz it's not matched, only if you know that the
command is ccsm then you write cc you get it among the results.
I think this is an important
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
** Changed in: unity
Status: New = Incomplete
** Tags added: needs-design
** Also affects: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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