-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/2012 05:23 PM, Ryan wrote: > While I have been testing out the fedora 18 beta, i noticed a significant > change in the behaviour of the search in the overview mode. A good example > of this is if you search for either "browse" or "web" in F17, you will get > firefox in the results. However, in f18, searching for "browse" or "web" > does not show firefox at all. > > I discovered this a few weeks ago, and filed bugs both against fedora[1] > and upstream in gnome[2], and the gnome bug has some insight into what has > changed. Previously, in f17, the gnome-shell search matched against the > fields for Name, Command and Comment. However in Gnome 3.6 in f18, it no > longer matches against the Comment field. > > According to the response in the gnome bugzilla, the gnome-shell tool does > now match against "keywords" that are specified in the desktop file, but it > seems that not many desktop files have relevant keywords specified. > > In short, there are a lot of search terms that people were able to use in > f17 that will now be broken in f18, as the majority of desktop files do not > have relevant keywords specified. > > I'm not sure what the best plan is to fix this. The tagger app for fedora > does have a lot of great keyword data already for packages, but it seems > like a lot of work to update every package with keyword metadata when the > old way worked, even though it was a bit crufty and matched "in"s and "on"s > and other small words in the comment field. > > cheers, ryanlerch [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864593 > [2] - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685824 [3] - > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger/dstat I think we should fix this, as it really hurts the functionality. Put back the searching for comments for F18 and then open a Feature page to get a real fix for this in Fedora 19. Searching for email brings back nothing? powerpoint? This is another drop in usability. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCLurQACgkQrlYvE4MpobMODQCeNGkPjKXAIRb6JX+L8IwE4iuX 4IMAn1/aGr4lFT99kydO9YBx9qdmS0dB =4zrD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
