Having said this, "handb" and "handbrake" should work. In which case, this sounds like a defect against unity-lens-applications should be raised.
On 25/09/12 17:44, Alan Bell wrote: > lenses listen to the seach query, they get a callback when it changes. > They can then use what the user has typed in whatever way they want to > get results. This means that one could be doing a substring search, > others an exact match, others case insensitive etc. So if it isn't > doing a very good search this is a bug in the individual lens, not a > general thing across all of them. There is a tradeoff between > fuzzyness and accuracy. Personally I am pretty unimpressed with the > results of fuzzy searches (like the HUD does) because it produces > random unexpected results that kind of anticipate me failing to type > stuff correctly. If I typed "and" I would *not* expect something > starting with H to get in the way of what I was actually looking for, > if I wanted something starting with H I would have typed it. > > On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: >> Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire >> words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in >> capitalisation. >> >> For instance, I have Handbrake installed. The desktop file gives a >> description of "HandBrake". The capital letter B is significant. If I >> search for "hand" or "brake", it appears. If I search for "Handbrake", >> "handb", or anything that crosses the capital B, the search fails. >> >> Further, if I search for "and", it doesn't find HandBrake at all. >> Searches >> must begin at the start of a word. This *really* needs to be fixed. >> >> The Mint menu doesn't have a problem with any of these. >> >> Regards, >> Tyler >> >> On 2012-09-25 15:26, Bill B. wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I am curious as to why there is all this fuss about a >>> not-yet-fully-released dash and how it has distracted all attention >>> away >>> from the dash's real problems. >>> >>> As an example I would cite the failure of the apps lens to properly >>> show >>> required applications... I run 12.4.1 fully updated and have a few [12] >>> games installed on my netbook for when I'm away and bored. I know I >>> have 12 games installed but have yet to find a search to display >>> them as >>> a result. e.g "games" displays 1, "game" displays 6... perhaps for the >>> whole selection I should type "oi! get it right"! >>> >>> Good move, you clever Canonocallies... nothing like a bit of fog to >>> cover up in true American presidential election stylie ;) >>> > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
