** Description changed: unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Natty unity 3.6.8-0ubuntu3, Ubuntu Natty unity-2d 5.8.0-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Pangolin + Example 1: 0. Be a 14-year-old girl, or a schoolteacher preparing to show a film to your class, or a businessperson preparing to give a presentation. - 1. Click the "Applications" button. + 1. Click the Applications button. 2. Type "movie" to launch Movie Player. + What happens: Seven applications appear, one of which is called "PornView". - What happens: - * Six applications appear, one of which is "PornView". - * There is no apparent way of preventing "PornView" from appearing as a result, though it's not even installed. + Example 2: + 0. Be a Dell representative or customer. + 1. Click the Applications button. + 2. Type "Dell" to find the Dell Recovery tool. + What happens: Five applications appear, including "Dopewars", a drug-dealing game. - What should happen: - * Only "Movie Player" and maybe "PiTiVi" appear. + (More examples in + <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/883800/comments/15>.) - This problem cannot be solved merely by renaming or blacklisting one - particular application. For example, a Saudi Ubuntu user might be - similarly annoyed that searching for "guide" returns "Xiphos Bible - Guide" as a result, when that's not installed either. + This problem cannot reasonably be solved merely by renaming or + blacklisting one or two particular applications. These are just two + examples, and if the Dash shows any applications that aren't installed, + there is no bright line between those that should appear for everyone + and those that should appear for no-one. We can't realistically expect the entire Ubuntu software library to be offense-free: as more independent applications are published, some (especially games) will be targeted at mature audiences and/or be non- worksafe, and that's fine. (We can introduce a maturity rating system inside Ubuntu Software Center for those.) But people should be able to expect that the launcher in Ubuntu's shell, of all things, *will* be offense-free. Possible solutions: * Simplest would be to restrict application search results only to those - applications that are actually installed. + applications that are actually installed. As Mark Shuttleworth said in + <https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg08030.html>: "To launch + what you know you have installed, use the Dash. To explore what may be + installed, or may be available, use the Software Centre. Now, neither + piece may yet be ideal, but we should improve the design of those pieces + for their specific purposes, not try to make everything do everything." * Introduce a maturity ratings system <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-software- maturity-ratings>, apply it to every package in the Ubuntu archive that needs it, then set a reasonable default for Dash searches (analogous to Google's "SafeSearch Moderate"). This might involve adding a setting for how much filtering the Dash should do. * Ad-hoc and unconfigurable blacklisting (as proposed in duplicate bug 883800). This might result in ongoing disagreements about whether particular applications should be blacklisted.
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