Not trying to impose any opinions here. The specs clearly state, what the rationale of the smart scopes project is.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SmartScopes1304Spec The roadblock seems to be that the old stuff is kinda hard coded, so is not such a trivial fix. I never expected this to get done right away, but there's still a long road ahead to make the smart scopes results as useful as it was envisioned. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity API bugs, which is subscribed to unity-scope-home in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196051 Title: smart-scopes: Software center results do not show up in the home-scope Status in Unity Home Scope: Won't Fix Status in “unity-scope-home” package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: No useful (or smart) search results returned for apps not currently installed, i.e. Steam, flash, Gimp, etc. to the Home-Scope. Fix needed: Add useful software center results also to the home-scope as per the goal to make the dash searches smart. ----------- original report: clean install of saucy, searched for chromium, banshee, etc. on either of these a Info icon for wikipedia is shown or chromium bookmarks was shown but not the application itself. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-scope-home/+bug/1196051/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

