Dash search for "Office" only shows 1 installed app but 5 non-installed ones

[Jeremy Bícha]

Binary package hint: unity

1. Open the Unity Dash
2. Search for Office
3. Only 1 installed app is shown but 5 uninstalled ones are shown. Even clicking see more results does not reveal the other installed LibreOffice apps.

A search for LibreOffice works correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Fri Mar 11 13:39:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-01-01 (69 days ago)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

global search now does not show 'available to install' apps.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

No, it's still a bug that searching for Office only shows 1 app. It should at least show all of the LibreOffice apps installed, and possibly apps from the Office category.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Yep, searching for LibreOffice produces only LibreOffice (the app which is like a hub for the other LibreOffice applications), it doesn't show the individual LibreOffice applications (Writer, Calc, Impress). This is probably because the search only matches from the start of words. LibreOffice is returned because its 'Generic Name' in /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop is 'Office', whereas the others are e.g. 'Spreadsheet'

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

I marked this as a duplicate of the above bug as even though this one was raised first, the other one described the problem in more detail and has more information on it.

[Marnanel Thurman (marnanel)]

Confirmed that this still exists in Oneiric.

[Spyros Kavvadias (thunk)]

Yes, this is still present in Oneiric, however the search for ''Office'' shows no results at all!

BTW, a search for ''office'' is one of the first things a new ubuntu user will try.

Brilliant.