I've been given this quite a lot of thought lately.
My conclusion is that I think it's a really dangerous path starting to
match apps to stuff they really shouldn't. A crucial example to me that
involve people near and dear to me (hence they remain unnamed ;-)) is
that they'd likely search for "open o" and if they see an office-like
icon they'd launch it, and will forevermore be thinking they are still
using OpenOffice. Looking at splash screens or what ever LibreOffice is
branded with is not something they dig at all. They typed in "open
office" so they must be running OpenOffice. That's just hard wired in
their brains. And that's completely reasonable I think.
Not only does this mislead users, but can also potentially lead to
copyright issues.
All this said I still think there are tonnes of room for improvement wrt
to app metadata and search usability. There have been some initiatives
on the ayatana list and I suggest people take it up there (or xdg,
gnome, what ever your preferred forum is).
** Changed in: unity-place-applications
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
** Changed in: unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
** Changed in: unity
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: New => Invalid
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searching "openoffice" does not match "libreoffice"
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