** Description changed:

  on unity 11.04,11.10 seraching for "game", "internet" or such generic 
keywords in the lenses does not show all relevant applications..
  this is a showstopper bug for me and other people i talked to
  i understand the difficulty of insuffiecient metadata for applications but 
escpecially for newbys and "non-geek"s this is at least a big MUST.
  You DO have descriptions and categories in software center.. can't these info 
be used in the lens too?
  
  Desired solution:
  Stick to the X-GNOME-Keywords field in the .desktop files, but improve the 
indexed data.
-  - Minimally: Assure that key apps have good keywords in their packages
-  - Best: Get the word out to have upstreams put good data in there. Help 
upstreams getting this done.
+  - Minimally: Assure that key apps have good keywords in their packages
+  - Best: Get the word out to have upstreams put good data in there. Help 
upstreams getting this done.
+ 
+ Also:
+ 12:51:48 <Trevinho> what about not only considering the Keywords .desktop 
file field (that is alredy supported, for applications that specify it) but 
also the category of each application?
+ 12:52:23 <Trevinho> I mean, if I search for "internet" or "games", I expect 
that all the programs under that category are shown into the dash, isn't it?
+ 12:53:39 <Trevinho> Of course, programs that have full matching (ie. name 
contains that string) would get the priority, but if I search for "System" I 
expect that all the applications under "System" category are shown, not only 
System Monitor for example...
+ 13:21:02 <JohnLea> yes considering the category of the application would be 
an improvement

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